[python-committers] Wrongly stopping merges discourages merging.

[Donald Stufft]

I’d also add that it is generally a good thing that people with power and a voice (e.g. the core devs) are having a similar experience that an external contributor would. This is our best line of defense against the external contributor experience degrading to a bad place. By having core devs share a similar experience, we can get feedback like the one about AppVeyor and try to improve things for everyone, instead of simply giving core devs a way to opt out of the pain. 

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> On Jun 4, 2018, at 1:54 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> Please realize that every time we have switched off CI, we have ended up with a broken branch, so it's a trade-off between these occasional hiccups or occasionally broken branches (and as Victor has pointed out, we are not always good as a group about making sure we notice when stuff breaks). Also note that because we now have branches that are almost always stable we have users who actually run from a checkout directly instead of waiting for a release (which also benefits us by helping to surface bugs earlier than e.g. an RC).