CruiseSaver: CruiseControl Screen Saver / News: Recent posts

I'm just getting setup. The code base is about four months old. I waited for two conditions to be met before making the move into SourceForge. First, the screen saver had to be useful. The idea was born to have a better "Ambient Orb" (search Google if you're not familiar with the orb) to show the status of all of our projects on the LCD hung on the wall. We've been using CruiseSaver at work for about a month. The second precondition I met before putting the project out in the public was getting the necessary CruiseControl patch registered -- http://jira.public.thoughtworks.org/browse/CC-493. CruiseSaver requires two extra JMX methods. I wrote the necessary code and tests. Then I found in CruiseControl's Jira that an existing request already covered one of the needed methods. Applying the patch to CruiseControl is an easy process until CC-493 is incorporated into a release.... read more