It looks like one of the main authors of atom is presenting today at QConSF too. Seems like dumb luck. :D
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Stuff like this isn't exactly new. You get lowest common denominator functionality.
Simon Wardley summed this stuff up pretty well about 6 years ago, http://blog.gardeviance.org/2010/08/islands-in-sky.html
We have a preview API in place for these types of deployment tasks. Lots of folks, travis/etc, seem to have piggy backed on top of successful builds too.
You can always get an updated list from http://developer.github.com/v3/meta/ but they're pretty static right now.
We've released 1.0.2 to deal with this. Sorry for the confusion, https://github.com/downloads/github/hubot/hubot-1.0.2.tar.gz
This is fixed in the 1.0.2 release, https://github.com/downloads/github/hubot/hubot-1.0.2.tar.gz
Vim + tabbed terminals and you're golden.