Whats the best way to deliver TFS build status notifications to the team?

Question

I like the status email sent by TFS\'s alerts mechanism when a build breaks. However I would like to send such an email to the entire team and not rely on the team to subscribe

Answer 1

Brian the Build bunny is nice but the Nabaztagtag WiFi Rabbit bunny is pretty expensive and is currently out of stock.

The Team Build Tray Notification that comes with TFS is ok, but:

• It's damn slow and polling is not configurable
• It's too easy to miss the build being broken for projects you care about
• Doesn't support different actions for different projects (e.g. show a modal dialog for project #1, but just show a short tray alert for project #2)
• Doesn't support different triggers for different people (e.g. show notifications for just me on project #1 or anyone on project #2)
• No information on what broke the build (e.g. compiler error, unit test, integration test)
• No audible notification if system's on mute
• No last build times

So there's an open source project on Google Code that runs in the tray that's available on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/siren-of-shame/. That project can work independently but it's designed to work with a USB Siren that is available for sale.