[tor-bugs] #30744 [Core Tor/Tor]: Allow failures in the Travis test-stem job

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#30744: Allow failures in the Travis test-stem job
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 Reporter:  teor                                 |          Owner:  teor
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  merge_ready
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.5.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.5.4-alpha
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-ci-fail-sometimes,               |  Actual Points:  0.2
  035-backport, 040-backport, 041-backport       |
Parent ID:  #29437                               |         Points:  0.1
 Reviewer:  catalyst                             |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor31-can
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Comment (by teor):

 Replying to [comment:4 catalyst]:
 > Replying to [comment:2 teor]:
 > > This can be sponsor 31, because we use test-stem to check refactoring.
 > >
 > > See my pull requests:
 > > * 0.3.5: https://github.com/torproject/tor/pull/1094
 > > * 0.4.0: https://github.com/torproject/tor/pull/1095
 > >   * clean merge, testing only
 > > * master: https://github.com/torproject/tor/pull/1096
 > >   * clean merge, testing only
 > >
 > > We can backport this change as soon as it passes on master, because
 it's a CI-only fix.
 > Thanks; this looks good! https://travis-
 ci.org/torproject/tor/builds/543644646 shows an allowed failure. There
 seem to still be cases where test-stem will time out Travis, causing an
 error, instead of a failure. I'm not sure if `allow_failures` will catch
 it, but maybe we can try to rerun jobs until it does?

 If timelimit isn't terminating stem, then that's a separate bug which we
 should fix.

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