Its the failed ones that's the problem. They fail because CI is not working 
properly. 
For example this trivial change to doc cannot be merged because CI failed: 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/8555/files

On 2017-10-31 13:36, Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> I see 73 PR's for mxnet.
> 
> 17 of those have successfully passed CI and are waiting for merge (assuming
> the CR passed human inspection).
> 21 Show some form of CI in progress.
> *Only 8 are in the queue in Jenkins*
> 
> The rest have failed CI for one reason or another.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Eric Xie <j...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> > The number of pending PRs is growing very fast. At the current rate it
> > will reach 200 before we can fix jenkins.
> >
> > Stability is not the only goal. Master will be most stable if we don't
> > push anything, but that's not what we want.
> >
> > Committers should be responsible for their commits. Good judgement is the
> > ultimate guarantee of good code.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
> >
> > On 2017-10-31 12:38, Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > -1
> > >
> > > I personally think it's a necessary evil and a good forcing factor to get
> > > CI fixed.
> > > Before that requirements, things that failed unit tests were being pushed
> > > into master daily.  It was a big problem.  At least now master is stable.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Hen <bay...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > This makes sense to me. CI isn't of value if it isn't continuous. +1.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Indhu <indhubhara...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > We have been having issues getting CI to work fast enough. Currently
> > the
> > > > CI
> > > > > is being the bottleneck to get commits in. This is severely impacting
> > > > > development. I propose we disable 'required status check' for the
> > master
> > > > > branch so that we can development is not impacted. We can work on
> > fixing
> > > > > the CI situation in parallel.
> > > > >
> > > > > Committer,
> > > > > Please vote if you are okay with disabling 'required status check'
> > for
> > > > > master.
> > > > >
> > > > > Once we have enough votes, I'll request a mentor to file a ticket
> > with
> > > > > infra.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Indu
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> 

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