Atom is too good to have this comment be the top one on the article - alas I can't delete it. It looks like I was wrong about the community contribution. They

Atom is too good to have this comment be the top one on the article - alas I can't delete it. It looks like I was wrong about the community contribution. They mentioned it elsewhere: the maintainers of the module I was happened to both be on paternity leave. I suspect they didn't mention it here because they didn't want it to seem like an excuse, but of course people should be able to take paternity leave without worrying about some errant comment on HN giving them a bad day. Also, the response was excellent: https://github.com/atom/tree-view/pull/913 https://github.com/atom/tree-view/pull/913 As soon as they came back it was resolved quickly, my PR got a review, and another one was accepted. All in all, I'm feeling much better about the community part of Atom, and thoroughly sorry for raising a fuss!