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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        - Add precomputed job size (and price) to the history for
25          controlling purpose.
26         
27        - Improve the SECURITY document to include good PostgreSQL
28          and OpenLDAP default settings.
29         
30        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
31          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
32          better integrate PyKota with these.
33         
34        - Allow soft and hard limits to be increased/decreased.
35       
36        - Better --prototype option in edpykota
37       
38        - Web enabled pykotme and dumpykota.
39       
40        - Add an MD5 checksum of the job's datas to the
41          history, to be able to discover duplicate print
42          jobs. This is partially done : the checksum
43          is now computed and exported into the environment
44          variable PYKOTAMD5SUM, but it is not yet saved
45          into the database.
46         
47        - Maybe put "gracedelay" in the database.
48       
49        - Price multiplier/divisor which can be set on a per
50          user or per user group basis.
51
52        - Ink accounting ala PrintBill.
53       
54        - Price and statistics per page format.
55       
56        - Add a description field to users/groups.
57       
58        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
59          is unavailable (server is down or something like that), so
60          introduce two directives :
61         
62            nodb: accept|reject|hold
63            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
64       
65        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
66          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
67          for current job.
68         
69        - Add a "printDenyBanner: once(/path/to/banner)" directive
70                "printDenyBanner: always(/path/to/banner)"
71                "printDenyBanner: never"
72          This requires a database schema change.
73         
74        - Think about some possible client <=> PyKota dialog
75          possibilities, like embedding a small web server in
76          PyKota for example, or something like that.
77       
78        - Log something when --add is used with existing entries.
79          Maybe add a new command line option to force/not force
80          modification of existing entries.
81         
82        - Finish implementation of quota-then-balance and
83          balance-then-quota.
84         
85        - Introduce the pkusers command.
86          pkusers --nogroup
87          pkusers --ingroups gr1,gr2,... --outgroups gr3,gr4,...
88         
89        - Allow the --ingroups command line option to repykota, to
90          report only users members of the specified groups.
91         
92        - Documentation...
93         
94        - Complete web administrative interface with graphical reports.
95       
96        - Group administrators (think quotagrpdmins for disk quotas).
97          Won't be implemented for now.
98         
99        - Multidatabase support, e.g. store users in LDAP, quota 
100          related datas in PostgreSQL, history in text file,
101          and so on... For 2.0, probably not before.
102       
103       
104============================================================
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