<p dir="auto">It would be useful to have the last publish date presented in a package view on Atom.io. There are some packages out there that were really popular but haven't been updated in a long while. This would give some visibility that a package may potentially or definitely not work with your current install of Atom.</p>
<p dir="auto">This would be used for <a href="https://github.com/atom/settings-view/issues/424" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/atom/settings-view/issues/424/hovercard">this</a> issue as well.</p>
<p dir="auto">It would be really helpful to show the release date for the latest version of a package on atom.io (or if not a date, time since the last release). This would make it a little easier to weed out packages that might not be maintained anymore. Maybe something like:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/823545/5910656/7c62e0b6-a58a-11e4-864c-0905544a387a.png"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/823545/5910656/7c62e0b6-a58a-11e4-864c-0905544a387a.png" alt="screenshot 2015-01-26 18 36 38" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>