Baking has become a critical step for publishing - however, it is not planned for it to cause publishing to fail. This is partly due to how long baking may take - much like PDF generation, it can take several hours, if there are external parts, like exercises, that need to be fetched and incorporated into the pages.
This slightly odd situtation (is baking a publish blocker, or not?) comes about partly due to derived copies - publishing a new version of content impacts not only the immediate book, but any book that shares pages with it. It was decided that failure of related books to bake is not a publication blocker, so by extension, it is not for any book. However, we want to be careful to not break existing books by publishing new content, but we cannot test every book that contains a given page.
So, we will implement two ways to mitigate this potential problem. First, will we keep track of when and with what recipe a given book successfully ba