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by croo 638 days ago
One of my friends old office had speakers and every time Jenkins failed with a build it made a short sound. It was different for each project so everyone familiar with the sound would instantly know which project pipeline failed. He liked it and had fun choosing a sound effect fitting for his own project :)
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One place I worked at the success was a golf clap. The fail was crowd going 'awwww' as if someone had just missed a putt. Nice and simple. Since the build took 3-4 hours you did not hear it much.

Before everyone went 'open office' it was semi fun to have sounds on different build actions. Now not so much :(

There’s… a particular sound pack that had those two sounds. Maybe different ones, sure, but this just unlocked a memory of two very particular sounds from my early Windows days. Might have been built-in, or maybe from Microsoft Plus.
That is very possible. Pretty sure we scrapped it off some random sound site.
I sat next to someone who had a similar set up, except a robot voice also read out a summary of the failures.

I moved desk within a few hrs.