Bamboo
Features – Notifications
Only the information you want - when, where and how you want it.
Choose your notification channel
Bamboo supports a comprehensive range of workplace tools to suit the way you work:
- IM integration for immediate feedback.
- Email notifications containing details of failing tests, build comments, indication of hanging builds, plus useful links for drilling down on the build results.
- Customisable RSS feeds, e.g. by label.
Specific build information can also be embedded as widgets within other applications.
Stay up-to-the-minute
Developers often don't check their email frequently, which can result in the build being broken for an extended period of time. Bamboo's instant messaging (IM) notification capabilities allow personalised real-time notification. Developers can even collaborate with Bamboo via IM using the two-way messaging feature.
This faster feedback loop results in quicker fixes and hence better build quality.
Out-of-the-box, Bamboo integrates with the industry standard Jabber IM servers, for example, public networks such as Google Talk or internal servers such as Openfire.
Customisable emails and notification criteria
It is easy to modify the layout and content of your Bamboo notifications. Separate, customisable Freemarker templates exist for each of the notification types (i.e. HTML email, text email, instant message) and events (e.g. Build Commented).
Getting the right 'volume' of notifications about your builds can be difficult. Send too many notifications and developers begin to ignore them. Send too few and important information can go unnoticed.
Bamboo provides flexible criteria for determining who, how and when to send notifications about build statuses. With dynamic roles in notification rules, Bamboo makes it even easier to pick the user to be notified.
Usage example
You might want to know about all results for one project, but only failures in another.