[SATLUG] Any recommendations for Change Management Software?

David Kowis dkowis at shlrm.org
Sun Jun 24 14:06:19 CDT 2007


Sean Carolan wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Like CVS? I'm not sure about web based control panels. Perforce was
>> > quite nice. Not FOSS, but they're probably my commercial choice.
> 
> 
> Well, I'm not so much looking for version control as a project/change
> management interface.  For example:
> 
> Alice wants to upgrade the operating system on server X.  She enters a
> change request ticket into the system and the change management board meets
> once a week to go over proposed changes.  The individual(s) who is in 
> charge
> of approving this change approve or deny and update the ticket.  After 
> Alice
> gets the green light she notifies end-users and proceeds with the upgrade
> during regular maintenance window.
> 
> Something like that.

Ah, Bugzilla can be bent to do that.

http://bestpractical.com/rt

That's probably more of what you're looking for. It's got a billion and 
one perl dependencies tho :( But if your distro has a package for it, 
it's supposed to be one of the best Open Source ones out there.


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