Redmine

I often have simple activities that should be logged in some way, but don't need the full blown ticket functionality (no workflow, just log entry). Those usually come up with test systems, where i.e. a new application release or some new hardware is installed, a backup has been done or such things.

It would be nice to include such a log into Redmine, just to have all relevant info within one place.

Could be implemented like a news list, as a simple time sorted list of entries, just a text with author and a timestamp. Could be beefed up with custom fields, to implement filtering i.e. on system names, locations, customers, etc.

Internally this feature could be realized within the standard ticket flow by a magic ticket type. This type uses only the necessary fields and is invisible in the standard ticket list. That way it could use all features of the tickets, but present the log entries as list.