Public life in the Team City

Piazza is a build monitor plugin for the JetBrains TeamCity continuous integration server. Piazza provides a high-visibility display of the current state of the build to alert the team as soon as the build breaks.

For any build, Piazza displays:

• The project and build name
• The current build number
• Whether the build is "red" or "green"
• Textual success/failure indication for the colour-blind
• Whether the Team City server is currently building
• The changes that caused the current build to be kicked off
• Pictures of the team members that made those changes
• The progress of the build
• The build step that the Team City agent is currently running
• The number of passed, failed and ignored tests

Piazza can also display an overview of all the builds in a project.

The plugin supports the Feature Branch feature of TeamCity.

Installation

1. Download the Piazza plugin zip file
2. Open TeamCity Server website and go to 'Administration > Plugins List'
3. Click 'Upload plugin zip'
4. Choose the Piazza plugin zip file and save it to '<TeamCity Data Directory>/plugins', which is preselected
5. Restart TeamCity Server
6. For every build configuration you want to see in Piazza go to 'Build Configuration Settings > General Settings', click 'Show advanced options' and 'enable status widget'

More information available from the TeamCity documentation: Installing Additional Plugins

Use Piazza Build Monitor

Go to a project page to see all build configurations in the monitor or choose a single build configuration and click on the 'Team Piazza Build Monitor' link:

Documentation

Documentation

Team Piazza in Action

If you have a picture of a running Team Piazza installation we would love to present a photo of it.

Introduction

Screencast by Mike Hogan of Software Confidence.

Licensing

Team Piazza is licensed under the GPL3. If that license causes difficulties, create an issue to discuss alternative license options.