I have turned back on the requirement that Travis be passing for PRs since 3.6.1rc1 is out and we now already have one instance where a merge broke the build (https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/518; it's been fixed). We will revisit this topic when I email on Friday about the workflow.

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 at 20:15 Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:

Travis is severely backed up at the moment. Knowing that 3.6.1rc1 is due this weekend I have temporarily turned off Travis requiring to be passing so that those who test locally can skip being blocked by hour-long (or more) wait times for Travis. If you don't want to test I would then still strongly recommend on waiting for Travis if you don't feel like your PR is critical to 3.6.