Example: python/cpython#20807 has "continuous-integration/travis-ci Expected — Waiting for status to be reported [Required]" but no link to a Travis CI job. Since the job is required, I cannot merge this PR.

• https://www.traviscistatus.com/ seems fine
• https://www.githubstatus.com/ seems fine as well

https://travis-ci.org/github/python/cpython/builds shows that the latest build ran 11 hours ago.

The current https://travis-ci.org/github/python/cpython is running for 4 minutes: tests on "Pull Request #20768 bpo-40939: Remove the old parser".

... but while I was writing this issue, python/cpython#20807 got a green "Travis CI": https://travis-ci.org/github/python/cpython/builds/697264594 passed (but the two coverage jobs are still running). So now I'm confused.

Maybe the fix is just to wait a bit :-) I closed/reopened python/cpython#20807 23 minutes ago to force to re-run Travis CI.

I also noticed Travis CI preventing to merge a PR beause the "coverage (C)" job was still running, whereas the other required Travis CI jobs passed successfully. Example: python/cpython#20767 shows that Travis CI is still running, whereas https://travis-ci.org/github/python/cpython/builds/696949107 completed but "Test code coverage (C)" job failed with "The job exceeded the maximum time limit for jobs, and has been terminated.". The last line is "0:46:18 load avg: 5.32 [254/426/1] test_profile passed -- running: test_tokenize (8 min 55 sec), test_multiprocessing_spawn (2 min 36 sec), test_statistics (1 min 53 sec)". Longer than 46 minutes to run the test suite is quite long :-(

Maybe we should just remove the coverage jobs on Travis CI, unless someone actually uses them? See https://bugs.python.org/issue40237