Open Source ChangeLog Options?

Question

Are there any open source ChangeLog options?

We would like to keep an in-house changelog so we can keep track of changes we do.

Preferably, I'm looking for something PHP and MySQL as backend.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Andrew

Answer 1

are you using a VCS? git? subversion? almost all of them support that kinda behavior. if not it should be relatively easy to write a php script to handle what you need.

Answer 2

If you mean to keep track of schema changes, you may want to look at liquibase. It's a pretty spiffy package that's basically migrations on steroids. liquibase.org

Answer 3

Sounds like a report using the check-in comments as a datasource, filtered on all recently check ins. Or a report using your bug tracker as a datasource, filtered on all recently closed bugs.

Now the question is, do you use source control or a bug tracker?

And if that is too structured, then you are likely tracking done "to-do" items, like what you might track in an application like base-camp. Any more light weight than base camp, and your talking notepad and using outlook as a database of work items (embedded in emails).