document that `atom` feeds are available for things and explain how to access them

[jsoref]

Code of Conduct

• I have read and agree to the GitHub Docs project's Code of Conduct

What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/collaborating-with-groups-in-organizations/about-your-organizations-news-feed
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

Add a page or sections to pages that talk about which things have atom feeds and the urls to access them

Additional information

I searched through all 4 pages of https://docs.github.com/en/search?query=feed and nothing turned up to tell me how to get an atom feed for releases.

there's a reference in https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes to a "releases" "feed', but it's effectively https://github.com/home-assistant/core/releases and not https://github.com/home-assistant/core/releases.atom

[Sharra-writes]

Thanks for opening an issue! I'll get it triaged for review.

[Sharra-writes]

@jsoref Sooo...I talked to the team and apparently Atom is at the end of its life and is supposed to be deprecated. In fact, my searching for it turned up a bunch of references that I'm told need to be removed. 😅 Sorry about this one. I'm afraid the opposite is happening.

[jsoref]

@Sharra-writes : To be clear, I'm talking about Atom ~ RSS, not Atom ~ VSCode

[Sharra-writes]

@jsoref I'll double check just to be sure we were all talking about the same thing.

[Sharra-writes]

@jsoref We were not all talking about the same thing. Time to do more digging.

[Sharra-writes]

I'm having trouble finding someone who knows anything about Atom (still looking), but one of the team wondered if this blog post would help you at all.

[jsoref]

@Sharra-writes: nope, that says I can ask about certain private feeds.
I want to know that even if I am not a member of the github organization (and I'm not) that I can request:
https://github.com/github.atom

The docs say:

User: The public timeline for any user, using uri_template. For more information, see "Hypermedia."
Current user organizations: The private timeline for the organizations the authenticated user is a member of.

But, users are not organizations (nor are they enterprises), and this makes no mention of organizations the user isn't a member of.

There might be repository feeds too, but I have an even harder time figuring out how to make any statement about them.

[Sharra-writes]

@jsoref Okay, sorry that doesn't help. I got a name for someone who's been here a long time and might know about it, or at least know who to ask, so 🤞

[Sharra-writes]

@jsoref I am back from my digging. Here is what I've been informed: Atom feeds are intentionally undocumented and unsupported, as we generally encourage folks to use our REST | GraphQL API instead (for reasons like performance, scalability, and long-term supportability). I linked your comment about whether you can request https://github.com/github.atom, but no one gave me a direct answer on that question, so I've asked more directly if that's something we have an answer for, and I'll update you with what I find out.

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