Yesterday we waited all day for the METRON-734 PR to even start (only to have it fail in a sporadic failure, but there's a PR for that too ;).
On the PR, I moved to allow the travis result to be an indication of a good build after waiting 3 hours for Travis to start our build. I would prefer to not be required to take extreme measures to get a good build in a timely manner. As such, I have submitted an Apache INFRA ticket requesting some guidance on the Travis situation: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-13571 For those interested, please watch that JIRA and hopefully we can work with INFRA to make this tolerable again.