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dumpykota --orderby now works with an LDAP backend.

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1it's a pyt# $Id$
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3PyKota - Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng
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5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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20============================================================
21
22TODO, in no particular order :
23       
24        - Add a third settable price for printers : a minimal cost
25          for a page, with a default value of 0.0. The value would
26          be used instead of the computed price in the case of ink
27          accounting if the computed price would be lower than this
28          minimal price. The value wouldn't be used (yet?) for
29          normal page accounting.
30         
31        - Document the PYKOTA_HOME environment variable.
32       
33        - LDAP : See if setting cn=ThePrinter for user print quota entries
34          could be done, only in the case where userquotabase=user
35          (idem for groups). Would make direct modifications (e.g.
36          with gq) more easy.
37         
38        - Allow the disabling of an user print quota entry without
39          deleting it.
40       
41        - Store the value of the user's account balance in the
42          printing history (the value at the time of printing)
43          as well as in the payments history (as a safety check
44          in case an user complains).
45         
46        - PJL for non-networked backends (see ML's history)
47       
48        - Add the listing of the member printers in pkprinters if the printer
49          is a printer group.
50         
51        - Allow several levels of administrative priviledges by allowing
52          files like ~pykota/pykotadmin.someusername.conf (readonly by
53          user 'someusername'), and have the database server deal
54          with the permissions : no need for additionnal code or data
55          in PyKota's database !
56       
57        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
58          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
59          better integrate PyKota with these.
60         
61        - Add most configuration directives to the database itself,
62          while still allowing to overwrite them with the configuration
63          files at run time.
64       
65        - Price and statistics per page format.
66       
67        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
68          is unavailable (server is down or something like that), so
69          introduce two directives :
70         
71            nodb: accept|reject|hold
72            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
73       
74        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
75          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
76          for current job. I did some testing but wasn't able to
77          make it work...
78         
79        - Documentation...
80         
81        - Learn more bits of PHP to help with phpPyKotaAdmin, which
82          is a GREAT tool !
83       
84        - Multidatabase support, e.g. store users in LDAP, quota 
85          related datas in PostgreSQL, history in text file,
86          and so on... For 2.0, probably not before.
87         
88        - Re-add support for LPRng if interest is high enough (it is
89          not for now)
90       
91       
92============================================================
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