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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
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5(c) 2003-2004 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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21
22TODO, in no particular order :
23
24        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
25          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
26          better integrate PyKota with these.
27         
28        - Allow soft and hard limits to be increased/decreased.
29       
30        - Web enabled pykotme and dumpykota.
31       
32        - Add a configuration directive to forbid user account
33          creation if the user doesn't exist on the system.
34       
35        - Add an MD5 checksum of the job's datas to the
36          history, to be able to discover duplicate print
37          jobs. This is partially done : the checksum
38          is now computed and exported into the environment
39          variable PYKOTAMD5SUM, but it is not yet saved
40          into the database.
41         
42        - Maybe put "gracedelay" in the database.
43       
44        - Price multiplier/divisor which can be set on a per
45          user or per user group basis.
46
47        - Ink accounting ala PrintBill.
48       
49        - Price and statistics per page format.
50       
51        - Add a description field to users/groups.
52       
53        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
54          is unavailable (server is down or something like that) :
55          introduce two directives :
56         
57            nodb: accept|reject|hold
58            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
59       
60        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
61          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
62          for current job.
63         
64        - Add frontbanner and rearbanner directives to pykota.conf
65          This directives will allow the launch (if executable)
66          or the use of the banner path passed as a parameter.
67          If executable, the banner content will be taken from
68          the command's output, else from the banner file
69          directly.
70         
71          Maybe allow frontbanner: +somepath and
72                      frontbanner: -somepath
73          to allow/deny accounting of the banner itself
74          (not sure because may be VERY DIFFICULT !)
75         
76        - Think about some possible client <=> PyKota dialog
77          possibilities, like embedding a small web server in
78          PyKota for example, or something like that.
79       
80        - Log something when --add is used with existing entries.
81          Maybe add a new command line option to force/not force
82          modification of existing entries.
83         
84        - Finish implementation of quota-then-balance and
85          balance-then-quota.
86         
87        - Test and document a possible workaround for knowing
88          if the job is a banner (embed a postscript comment
89          in the banner).
90         
91        - Introduce the pkusers command.
92          pkusers --nogroup
93          pkusers --ingroups gr1,gr2,... --outgroups gr3,gr4,...
94         
95        - Allow the --ingroups command line option to repykota, to
96          report only users members of the specified groups.
97         
98        - Documentation...
99         
100        - Complete web administrative interface with graphical reports.
101       
102        - Group administrators (think quotagrpdmins for disk quotas).
103          Won't be implemented for now.
104         
105        - Multidatabase support, e.g. store users in LDAP, quota 
106          related datas in PostgreSQL, history in text file,
107          and so on... For 2.0, probably not before.
108       
109       
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