Motivation, a failed build of the website shouldn't be published, as that breaks the website.

Build failures are probably being eaten here in the rake.rb script:

desc "Build the site"
task :build => :check do
  system("echo Building...")
  system "bundle exec awestruct -P production --force"
end

Do try it out locally, by temporarily commenting out the actual publish, so it only prints to the console if publish is called. Then introduce an error in the website (for example use an unexisting userId) to verify that publish isn't called than (but is called if it builds fine).

Afterwards, do the same changes on drools-website and jbpm-website repo's or talk to mbiarnes@redhat.com