How do you make CI more fun

Introduction

One of the major areas we explored is how to make the feedback part of the CI more engaging. We discussed several options:

• Extreme Feedback
• Gamification - is it good or bad?
• Do we really need CI in the first place?

Given the last point of our discussion, the focus shifted to alternatives to CI and how to keep up the quality of the code while still having fun :D.

Extreme Feedback

Slack bots can be super!

• https://zapier.com/zapbook/jenkins/slack/

Ambient orbs can be awesome!

• http://www.ambientdevices.com
• http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control
• https://github.com/luismreis/beacon

Lava lamps can be legendary!

• http://www.developertesting.com/archives/month200404/20040401-eXtremeFeedbackForSoftwareDevelopment.html
• https://github.com/luismreis/beacon

Gamification

The Simpsons did it!

• http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2007/03/27/Continuous-Integration-with-The-Simpsonstrade.aspx

Habitica

• https://habitica.com