A successful build should not be required in order to release.

As discussed on the dev list, the success of a build at some point in the past is not related to the success of a release now.

See http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Thoughts-on-build-environment-selection-when-releasing-in--distributed-build-setup-p27430431.html

The restriction to have the projects in 'build success' state before it will let you do a release should be dropped.

I should be able to add a project and immediately release it, or release a group in which one or more of the projects has a error or warning.

The release may fail, but I should not be prevented from starting it.