Notes

Delighted to have @CrossrefOrg contributing to open source projects and living the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure. Expect to see more of this.

https://www.crossref.org/blog/open-source-code-giving-back/

@gcabanac @CrossrefOrg Ugh. We've been struggling to figure out what is periodically killing the Polite API. Usually these things are easy to identify, but either we have an internal problem or somebody is randomizing their contact info so we can't pick them out (which is rude and not polite at all).

@srp @CrossrefOrg Happens a lot. Never anything intentional or malicious. Usually somebody who has just discovered python’s multiprocessing module and/or AWS lambda, but has not yet learned to check and act on http errors.

@srp @CrossrefOrg We suspect some bot responsible. Timing of the problem is regular (starts at 6:00 UTC, ends in evening). But other than that, this one is particularly hard to isolate and block.

@kevingashley @scilib @CrossrefSupport will contact pub if you report to support@crossref.org. Response rates vary, as you can imagine. But Nature is generally good.