It seems that the mediawiki-core-jslint test compares the current results against a previous "successful" run's results in order to ignore warnings. But it does not take into account that the previous run may have been on a different branch. This is not particularly useful.
In https://integration.mediawiki.org/ci/job/mediawiki-core-jslint/3455/checkstyleResult/, it compared a backport on the wmf/1.21wmf11 branch with a previous test against master, and seems to have complained about issues that had been fixed in master since wmf11 was branched.
Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: enhancement