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Revision 2452, 3.8 kB (checked in by jerome, 19 years ago)

Upgraded database schema.
Added -i | --ingroups command line option to repykota.
Added -C | --comment command line option to edpykota.
Added 'noquota', 'noprint', and 'nochange' as switches for edpykota's
-l | --limitby command line option.
Severity : entirely new features, in need of testers :-)

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[737]1# $Id$
2
[952]3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
[737]4
[2028]5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
[873]6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
9(at your option) any later version.
[737]10
[873]11This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14GNU General Public License for more details.
[737]15
[873]16You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
[2303]18Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
[873]19
[737]20============================================================
21
[1322]22TODO, in no particular order :
[2256]23       
[2446]24        - PJL for non-networked backends (see ML's history)
25       
[2429]26        - --freemoney/--freepages command line option for edpykota :
[2430]27          don't modify the totals or payments, but instead set
28          a freemoney/freepages attribute which will be decremented/incremented
29          **before** the real one.
[2429]30         
[2376]31        - Make the SNMP and PJL delay and number of loops a new configuration
32          directive.
33       
[2323]34        - Adds configurability to what happens when the user/group doesn't exist
[2325]35          when running edpykota. Rewrite the main loop to be able to abort
36          early, before any modification has taken place.
[2323]37         
[2315]38        - Add the listing of the member printers in pkprinters if the printer
39          is a printer group.
40         
[2208]41        - Allow several levels of administrative priviledges by allowing
42          files like ~pykota/pykotadmin.someusername.conf (readonly by
43          user 'someusername'), and have the database server deal
44          with the permissions : no need for additionnal code or data
45          in PyKota's database !
46       
[1882]47        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
48          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
49          better integrate PyKota with these.
50         
[1876]51        - Allow soft and hard limits to be increased/decreased.
52       
[2212]53        - Add most configuration directives to the database itself,
54          while still allowing to overwrite them with the configuration
55          files at run time.
[1844]56       
[1634]57        - Ink accounting ala PrintBill.
58       
[1679]59        - Price and statistics per page format.
60       
[1598]61        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
[1892]62          is unavailable (server is down or something like that), so
[1598]63          introduce two directives :
64         
65            nodb: accept|reject|hold
66            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
67       
[1585]68        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
69          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
[2212]70          for current job. I did some testing but wasn't able to
71          make it work...
[1585]72         
[1501]73        - Think about some possible client <=> PyKota dialog
74          possibilities, like embedding a small web server in
[1507]75          PyKota for example, or something like that.
[1501]76       
[1640]77        - Introduce the pkusers command.
78          pkusers --nogroup
[1378]79          pkusers --ingroups gr1,gr2,... --outgroups gr3,gr4,...
[1370]80         
[1157]81        - Documentation...
82         
[2054]83        - Learn more bits of PHP to help with phpPyKotaAdmin, which
84          is a GREAT tool !
[1045]85       
[1385]86        - Multidatabase support, e.g. store users in LDAP, quota 
87          related datas in PostgreSQL, history in text file,
88          and so on... For 2.0, probably not before.
[737]89       
90       
91============================================================
92
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