diff --git a/modules/openstack_project/files/zuul/layout.yaml b/modules/openstack_project/files/zuul/layout.yaml
index 5f4ad1f3e3..89dcffec6f 100644
--- a/modules/openstack_project/files/zuul/layout.yaml
+++ b/modules/openstack_project/files/zuul/layout.yaml
@@ -70,25 +70,43 @@ jobs:
     branch: stable/folsom
   - name: gate-tempest-devstack-vm-smoke
     branch: ^(stable/(diablo|essex|folsom)).*$
+    failure-message: FAILURE The smoke tests caught something!
+    success-message: SUCCESS This code is good enough to pass the smoke tests. Quick run more tests.
   - name: gate-tempest-devstack-vm-full
     branch: ^(?!stable/(diablo|essex|folsom)).*$
+    failure-message: FAILURE Quick, to the logs!
+    success-message: SUCCESS As best as we can tell this change works.
   - name: gate-tempest-devstack-vm-quantum
     branch: ^(?!stable/(diablo|essex|folsom)).*$
+    failure-message: FAILURE Networking is hard.
+    success-message: SUCCESS The bits must flow.
   - name: gate-tempest-devstack-vm-quantum-full
     branch: ^(?!stable/(diablo|essex|folsom)).*$
     voting: false
+    failure-message: FAILURE Networking is hard.
+    success-message: SUCCESS The bits must flow.
   - name: gate-tempest-devstack-vm-postgres-full
     branch: ^(?!stable/(diablo|essex|folsom)).*$
+    failure-message: FAILURE Postgres does not approve.
+    success-message: SUCCESS Postgres users everywhere thank you.
   - name: gate-grenade-devstack-vm
     voting: false
+    failure-message: FAILURE ... maybe horse shoes is more up your alley
+    success-message: SUCCESS BOOM!
   - name: ^.*-python27$
     parameter-function: python27_params
+    failure-message: FAILURE Jenkins has detected you trying to sneak by, roll initiative.
+    success-message: SUCCESS
   - name: ^gate-.*-python26-rhel6$
     voting: false
     branch: ^(?!stable/(diablo|essex)).*$
+    failure-message: FAILURE RHEL would like a word with you.
+    success-message: SUCCESS Hopefully it works on Ubuntu too.
   - name: gate-nova-pylint
     voting: false
     branch: ^(?!stable/(diablo|essex)).*$
+    failure-message: FAILURE More lint than a college laundromat.
+    success-message: SUCCESS No lint fires here, not today.
   - name: gate-oslo-incubator-pyflakes
     branch: ^(?!stable|(diablo|essex|folsom)).*$
   - name: dev-zuul-coverage
@@ -122,6 +140,15 @@ jobs:
     files:
       - '^tools/.*-requires$'
       - '^.*requirements.txt$'
+  - name: ^.*-pep8$
+    failure-message: FAILURE This isn't Gangnam style.
+    success-message: SUCCESS Guido approves.
+  - name: ^.*-docs$
+    failure-message: FAILURE It is a good thing no one reads the docs because these docs do not build.
+    success-message: SUCCESS Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
+  - name: ^.*-python26$
+    failure-message: FAILURE Python 2.6 is not end of life. Yet.
+    success-message: SUCCESS Is RHEL working?
 
 
 projects: