Currently buildhistory is shoe-horned into the buildstep CreateAutoConf. If it fails, we do not want to fail the entire step. We should have some way of knowing that buildhistory failed without digging into CreateAutoConf's logs. The correct way to do this is to pull all the buildhistory out into its own step and "flunkOnFailure" but not "haltOnFailure". I do not see a quick bandaid fix for this issue.
Created attachment 3884 [details] output from CreateAutoConf
Current changes in how the autobuilder works will remove the need for this.