Are there APIs we can use to check the status of builbots?
Maybe we can have the our bots check for the buildbot status in backport PRs. 

On Wed, May 30, 2018, 2:33 AM Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> wrote:

Buildbots only send email notifications to buildbot-status@python.org
when the state changes from success (green) to failure (red). It's
much simpler for me to spot a regression when most buildbots are
green.