Hi, > Another interesting example is that of the open source Atom text editor: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747824 Atom is, as far as > I can tell, mostly a front end to github's closed source services.
No it is a real (purely local/non-Sass) text editor which has some git support by default. AFAIU, the only github integration installed by default is the open-on-github plugin (https://atom.io/packages/open-on-github) which provides shortcuts to open github packages. The metric plugin (https://atom.io/packages/metrics) is another problematic default plugin: it reports some usage stats to Google Analytics. As they are plugins on top on the core of Atom they can be disabled at runtime and could be removed from a Debian-packaged version. By the way, I do find some github-frontend packages already: cl-github-v3 (in unstable), clhigh (in experimental), eclipse-myslin-tasks-github, gph-import, gits, git-hub, github-backup, libnet-github-perl, libpgithub-perl, ruby-octokit. Cheers. -- Gabriel Corona
