Populate django admin change history from import script / API changes

[Andrew-Dickinson]

Should we try to add "object created" history entries to the django admin UI. Might be nice

[Andrew-Dickinson]

Perhaps we should integrate django-simple-history which might just give us this for free

[Andrew-Dickinson]

Full list of options here: https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/model-audit/

[Andrew-Dickinson]

Too low usage / too new:

• Goddard django-audit
• djano-model-tracker
• django-models-logging

Not really for what we want to do:

• django-dirtyfields (not for model history tracking)
• django-fieldsignals (not for model history tracking)
• django-tables2

Potential options:

• django-pghistory
• django-easy-audit
• django-auditlog
• django-simple-history
• Django Reversion

[Andrew-Dickinson]

Django-easy-audit was extremely easy to set up. However the admin UI leaves much to be desired:

[Andrew-Dickinson]

Django-reversion was not bad to setup, and supports reverting to previous versions of the model, the UI is not too shabby:

[Andrew-Dickinson]

django-auditlog was also not that bad, and the UI is decent, however all the models are included in the same "history" table, which is kinda lame

Edit: some attempts to fix that here but I couldn't get the mix-in workaround to work

[Andrew-Dickinson]

Skipping django-pghistory as the admin screenshots in their docs are pretty meh

[Andrew-Dickinson]

I like django-simple-history the best by far: