Service Integrations

While the content of The Programming Historian is tracked and hosted on GitHub, we do use several non-GitHub services to aid our editorial and publishing process.

Gmail

• [email protected] (please do not email this box as it is not monintored)
• purpose: to provide a shared email box that these service integrations can be linked to.
• maintained by @acrymble and linked to his phone number. Recovery email address is [email protected]

Google Groups

• [email protected]
• purpose: for internal emails only for members of the editorial board
• Connected to [email protected] account.
• maintained by @acrymble.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

• purpose: to provide catalogue entries of lessons that can be added easily to library catalogues.
• maintained by: @drjwbaker
• notes for transfer: March and September each year. Login in at https://doaj.org/publisher/ (linked to James Baker's email: [email protected]), sort existing entries by date at https://doaj.org/toc/2397-2068, identify new lessons at https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/?sortType=date&sortOrder=desc, manually enter at https://doaj.org/publisher/metadata. For abstract, use a logical combination of header abstract and introduction.

Travis CI

• purpose: Dead link and YAML checking
• maintained by: @mdlincoln
• notes for transfer: No password needed. New admin would need to authorize Travis CI to access their GitHub account.

Netlify

• purpose: live web previews of pull requests
• maintained by: @mdlincoln
• notes for transfer: No password needed. New admin would need to authorize Travis CI to access their GitHub account, and current maintainer would add new maintainer as an admit for the Netlify app.

Twitter

• purpose: to tweet about news and content
• maintained by @acrymble, @walshbr, @mdlincoln (administrators)
• All members of the editorial board should have tweeting access. contact @acrymble if you don't.
• The account is linked to the following email: [email protected]

Twitter bot

• purpose: Pre-compose tweets
• maintained by: @walshbr (with @mdlincoln and @jerielizabeth as collaborators on Heroku account)
• notes for transfer: App is hosted at Heroku, which requires a Heroku account (currently Brandon's). The app uses Twitter credentials (the ProgHist Twitter account) as well as a Google Sheets keychain that exists only on @walshbr machine. New admin would need to generate new custom keychain for Google Sheets, and ensure they have push privileges to Heroku.

Google Analytics

• purpose: Monitor site traffic
• maintained by: @acrymble, also linked to [email protected] account
• notes for transfer: New administrative access and user management accessible via the above email account.

Domain Name

• purpose: Gives us the custom url programminghistorian.org
• maintained by: [email protected]

Cloudflare

• purpose: Provides HTTPS
• maintained by: @mdlincoln
• notes for transfer: Current admin removes programminghistorian.org from their Cloudflare account, allowing a new admin to add it to their Cloudflare account.

Zenodo

• purpose: deposit location for project citation.
• maintained by: @drjwbaker
• notes: annual (each November). Use process at https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ to create a deposit from https://github.com/programminghistorian/jekyll. Latest deposit at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1046738.