What do the xenofarm reports mean?

Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> Sat, 07 Sep 2002 19:20:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.snake-farm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm stumped.  The reports from Xenofarm seem entirely unhelpful.
E.g.:

> Subject: [farm-report] Daily Snake Farm report
> From: Snake Farmer <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 00:00:04 +0200 (MEST)
> 
> Recent builds:
>    67 - 2002-09-06 03:47
>    68 - 2002-09-06 04:05
> 
> Contributing heroes:
> 
> > asmodean.lysator.liu.se [Linux 2.2.19-6.2.10 alpha] <
>    67 - failed http://www.lysator.liu.se/xenofarm/python/files/67_6
>    68 - failed http://www.lysator.liu.se/xenofarm/python/files/68_6
>         final build failed

So my question is, why did it fail?

When I click on either of these URLs, I get a directory listing with
two dozen files.  I sampled a few, but none of them seem to have clues
about what happened, and there's no explanation of which files to look
at.

If there was a clue in Anders' posting about Xenofarm, I must have
missed it.  (Also, what's with the fractional sizes?  What on earth
does "212.0 bytes" mean? :-)

Help!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)