Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far

I quite like the Continuous Integration software 'Hudson'.

While it is from the java world, it has some useful .net plugins, and it is so easy to extend that .net programmers can get a lot out of it. This blog post is a good guide for .net developers wanting to get started with it.

One oddity about Hudson is that it uses Blue to indicate success, rather than the more traditional Green.

Perhaps this is done to help people with red-green colour blindness.

Either way, I was happy to see there's a plugin called "Green Balls" which changes the success images to green, rather than blue.

I thought this worked fine, and I was quite happy with the newly installed Green Balls, until we'd been running for a few days.

There was a loud crashing sound, I turned around to the build monitor and noticed something unexpected:

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Yes, yes. I am groaning too. It is bad. Yes.

'Matt Casto' on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:06:36 GMT, sez:

Hudson ate my balls!

We actually set up a twitter account earlier this year and had Hudson tweet build status.

'Mike Woodhouse' on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:50:35 GMT, sez:

I think the blue vs green thing may be a result of problems getting bright (bright = happy?) green text to display nicely on screen, a problem I've also had. Maybe something to do with our eyes being less sensitive to blues? Or something.

'Steve Calvert' on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:13:42 GMT, sez:

I'd take green balls over blue balls anyday...

'Jake' on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:57:11 GMT, sez:

I've already installed Green Balls.

Now I think I might wanna uninstall. Quickly!

'Peter' on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:14:50 GMT, sez:

Too far, or not too far enough!?!

'OJ' on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:33:07 GMT, sez:

Sheesh.. how did I not see that one coming!?

'Rune Jacobsen' on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:55:30 GMT, sez:

I applaud you - there is seriously not enough CI humor in the world. :D

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