that is a fascinating article, thank you. i like the idea of 'push karma'.
I liked this idea too : "all engineers who contributed code must be available online during the push. The release system verifies this by contacting them automatically using a system of IRC bots; if an engineer is unavailable (at least for daily pushes), his or her commit will be reverted."
That way, they are be able to react very quickly in case of a problem.