Cosmo: project status panel

'Dan F' on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:25:37 GMT, sez:

Build chicken? Build chicken!?! Do tell more, that thing looks funny :-)

'lb' on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:51:15 GMT, sez:

@Dan F: You don't know what a build chicken is? Every project needs a build chicken.

The build chicken is what you get awarded if you break the build. So the last person to break the build will always be in possession of it.

Even if you're not using continuous integration you can have a build chicken. If someone fails to check in a file referenced by the project, such that the code will now *only* build on their machine, you would award them the build chicken.

any project without a build chicken is doomed.

'Dan F' on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:53:12 GMT, sez:

I know what's on my shopping list this weekend. Sounds healthier than having to buy the donuts.

From looking at the photo, I thought the chicken was hooked up to some kind of usb/x10 powered pole and got raised into the air when the build broke. That'd be kinda funny :-)

'Kyle' on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:25:57 GMT, sez:

>a build lamp hooked up via X10.

We've got this hooked up and it's great!

There are red flood lights mounted all around the room, and when the build breaks, the whole floor turns red!

'PHenry' on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:03:01 GMT, sez:

re build chicken
We have "the flower" for stuff like that. And it really has a dead bug in the big "sniffer" bowl. Very ironic.

I love the optics of the build status. Very cool! Kudos.

'lb' on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:27:38 GMT, sez:

Proposed new feature for cosmo:

Play a 'wilhelm scream' sound effect whenever build breaks.

http://hollywoodlostandfound.net/sounds/Wilhelm_tk4.wav

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