Hello Roy.
Do you know why we have so much merges to master at one moment and did not have them before? Were you blocked by something or waiting for? Just trying to understand that from the process standpoint.
Actually project maintainers do have ability to merge without "CI" flag already, because Jenkins sets only "-1" that is not preventing maintainers from merging the patch. So feel free to use it and merge if needed. Also we brought up more slaves and I am going to add even more however we still may hit the limit depending on the number of patches.
Anton.