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.

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

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

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

Screencast by Mike Hogan of Software Confidence.

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