[tor-bugs] #27366 [Core Tor/Tor]: Ask Travis CI to reduce the number of erroring builds

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#27366: Ask Travis CI to reduce the number of erroring builds
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     Reporter:  teor          |      Owner:  teor
         Type:  task          |     Status:  assigned
     Priority:  Medium        |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.3.5.x-final
    Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal        |   Keywords:  tor-ci
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 A few of our builds errored out over the last few days. We've been seeing
 intermittent errors like this for a few weeks now.

 I emailed support at travis-ci.com :
 {{{
 Hi,

 I'm a Tor Project developer who monitors our Travis CI.

 We're seeing about 1% of builds error with one of the following errors:

 1. Initial VM startup hangs:

 https://travis-ci.org/torproject/tor/jobs/421734517
 https://travis-ci.org/torproject/tor/jobs/420986864

 The VM startup appears to hang even if sudo is not required.
 We have an open patch to reduce the number of jobs per build.

 2. Connecting to rust-lang.org fails:

 https://travis-ci.org/torproject/tor/jobs/421823841

 The network seems to fail mainly on sudo required builds.
 We have an open patch to reduce our dependency on rust-lang.org.

 Is there anything you can do on your end?
 }}}

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