Okay, so yesterday, it occured to me that svn.collab.net was sitting
just a few feet away, and it has, among other pieces of hardware, a
built-in speaker. I heard the disk churn on the box, and immediately
though, "Someone must be committing." As it turns out, I was wrong.
But it got me thinking that it would be cute to have some audio
notification of such a thing.
So Karl whipped up a script that plays a number of BEL characters
(beeps), specified by an integer command-line argument, and with a
1-second pause between them. Karl then plugged that script into the
post-commit and post-revprop-change hooks. Now if someone commits,
we hear 3 beeps; a propchange is 2 beeps. It's been a source of fun
around here today.
But we're going one step further.
We'd like for each committer (who has the means to do so) to record a
small soundbite -- a soundcrumb, really -- that we can associate with
your username, and chunk out via the machine's soundcard. :-) Just
fire off a backgrounded mpg123 process, or that kinda thing. Just
record something like, "Commit from Karl" or "Bomb's away!" ... you
get the point.
Obviously, nobody benefits from this but the CollabNet guys (and
actually, our non-Subversion co-workers might threaten to kill us when
they start hearing strange voices from the machine...) and our guests,
but we think it'd be a kick.
Send MP3s or OGGs to me at cmpilato@collab.net.
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Received on Fri Nov 22 22:21:06 2002