Per my previous Travis is dead, long live GitHub actions. I propose to broaden the RTC exception in 2.4.x/STATUS to allow CI config changes and scripts to be merged from trunk:
Index: STATUS =================================================================== --- STATUS (revision 1907679) +++ STATUS (working copy) @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ . non-Unix, single-platform code . routine APLOGNO() backports . .gdbinit - . Travis integration: .travis.yml and test/travis*.sh + . CI configuration and scripts . mod_tls RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS: