[Python-Dev] Community buildbots and Python release quality metrics

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I don't ascribe this to malice -
> it really *would* be much harder to fix it now, for us as well as for him.

I think I disagree. It's easier to fix it now than it was to fix it back
then. Fixing it back then would have meant to constantly observe the
buildbots, and keep them running, so it would be a huge effort to
maintain the infrastructure just to find a the few changes that
unintentially broke something.

Looking at them now is a lot of effort, also. But this effort is
feasible, once the root cause is identified, the patch causing it might
just get backed out. Maintaining the community buildbots has proven
infeasible.

It's unfortunate that many package authors don't understand that not
all breakage is deliberate, and that their only chance to get undesired
breakage reverted is to report bugs NOW.

Regards,
Martin