Hugo van Kemenade

Closing this year-old PR due to lack of interest, but happy to re-open if that changes! Note Python 3.14 is almost out and also needs testing.

Set to draft as a demo build shows some colour output but also ANSI codes leaking out: before: https://buildbot.python.org/#/builders/301/builds/11808/steps/6/logs/stdio after: https://buildbot.python.org/#/builders/301/builds/11810/steps/6/logs/stdio

Yeah, it's not ready for merge, it's not meant to switch from colour to ANSI codes mid-way. > Also, if I download the logs and open them my text editor...

cc @befeleme

(I pushed a test and lint fix)

I've split out the `--ssh-key` addition into https://github.com/python/release-tools/pull/279.

I've split out the remaining changes: * https://github.com/python/release-tools/pull/302 * https://github.com/python/release-tools/pull/303

All merged, thanks all!

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