Good release?

I've had some time off, babysitting, but also been battling the database this week, trying to read the cabling. The original database I was working with turned out to be inconsistent, have to try again today.

Yesterday  was a bit frustrating because the release failed fairly fundamentally. How are we supposed to know this in a reasonably automated way so that we don't start to work with a broken release? I think I found a way, by interrogating the release web pages automatically; of course these pages are in (not very good) html, so I have to find a way to tidy them to good xml before interrogating. It turns out that 'xmllint' willl do this. I've added a tiddler on my notebook page.