It would really only make sense for someone to write it that way if Heroku and Travis CI were not "third-party OAuth integrators" (which they are). At some poin

It would really only make sense for someone to write it that way if Heroku and Travis CI were not "third-party OAuth integrators" (which they are). At some point we're just playing "Yes but if we assume the author did not speak English natively and made this particular kind of odd error, then you could read it as meaning...". Occam's Razor applies – the simplest possible reading is almost certainly the correct one.