Julio Santos

Seen on the Extreme Programming mailing list:

I thought I’d share our new build status lights with the group:

This is a real, four foot high British traffic light, which is hooked up to our build machine. It was a scoop at only £40 from ebay, but I didn’t envy my colleague who had to bring it into work on a crowded London train.

The build machine also plays sounds when the build status changes:

Red: compilation failure; plays a submarine style siren sound
Amber: test failure; plays a ‘wrong answer’ sound from a game show
Green: build success; plays a ‘Hallelujah!’ sound

We also have a secret Friday night mode that plays disco music and alternates combinations of lights to the beat, but we haven’t shown that to the Customer yet :-)

So, do we have the coolest build status lights?

Chris

Fantastic stuff! I suspect those sounds will get old pretty quickly though.