I wrote greenscreen to be a software version of the build light.  You
need a spare monitor to use as your hardware device though.  I tend to
stick a big one on top of a bookcase or something similar so that the
whole team can see it.

http://github.com/martinjandrews/greenscreen
http://blog.martyandrews.net/2009/08/greenscreen-build-monitor-bvc.html

-- Marty

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Keith Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Im currently working with some guys at the ThoughtWorks office in
> Melbourne and they've got this cool-ass light that goes green when the
> build on the CI server passes and goes red when it fails horribly (it
> also goes yellow during a build). Does anyone else use anything
> similar?
>
> I found a post done by the guys as last.fm:
>
> http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control
>
> They use this USB controlled power board where you can send signals to
> it to turn off/on connected devices. I tried to find such a device in
> Australia but I havent found one yet.
>
> Also the last.fm posts shows that they have these status screens all
> across their office - trac ticket status, last commit, load graphs
> etc. Does anyone know of any open source tools that would be used for
> office status displays like that?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Keith
>
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