Broken travis-ci build is blocking community contributions

Created by: brettwooldridge

The travis-ci build has been broken for 5-days.

Basically nobody wants to merge a pull request unless the build is green, even if the failures appear to be in unrelated code. This is causing a significant backup in the merging of community contributions.

Someone with commit privileges either needs to 1) fix the build, or 2) revert commits that were responsible for the break.