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Added the overwrite_jobticket directive.
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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
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21
22TODO, in no particular order :
23       
24        - Make the SNMP and PJL delay and number of loops a new configuration
25          directive.
26       
27        - Ensure that deleted or modified entries are flushed from the cache.
28       
29        - Adds configurability to what happens when the user/group doesn't exist
30          when running edpykota. Rewrite the main loop to be able to abort
31          early, before any modification has taken place.
32         
33        - Add the listing of the member printers in pkprinters if the printer
34          is a printer group.
35         
36        - Allow several levels of administrative priviledges by allowing
37          files like ~pykota/pykotadmin.someusername.conf (readonly by
38          user 'someusername'), and have the database server deal
39          with the permissions : no need for additionnal code or data
40          in PyKota's database !
41       
42        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
43          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
44          better integrate PyKota with these.
45         
46        - Allow soft and hard limits to be increased/decreased.
47       
48        - Add most configuration directives to the database itself,
49          while still allowing to overwrite them with the configuration
50          files at run time.
51       
52        - Ink accounting ala PrintBill.
53       
54        - Price and statistics per page format.
55       
56        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
57          is unavailable (server is down or something like that), so
58          introduce two directives :
59         
60            nodb: accept|reject|hold
61            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
62       
63        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
64          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
65          for current job. I did some testing but wasn't able to
66          make it work...
67         
68        - Think about some possible client <=> PyKota dialog
69          possibilities, like embedding a small web server in
70          PyKota for example, or something like that.
71       
72        - Log something when --add is used with existing entries.
73          Maybe add a new command line option to force/not force
74          modification of existing entries.
75         
76        - Finish implementation of quota-then-balance and
77          balance-then-quota.
78         
79        - Introduce the pkusers command.
80          pkusers --nogroup
81          pkusers --ingroups gr1,gr2,... --outgroups gr3,gr4,...
82         
83        - Allow the --ingroups command line option to repykota, to
84          report only users members of the specified groups.
85         
86        - Documentation...
87         
88        - Learn more bits of PHP to help with phpPyKotaAdmin, which
89          is a GREAT tool !
90       
91        - Multidatabase support, e.g. store users in LDAP, quota 
92          related datas in PostgreSQL, history in text file,
93          and so on... For 2.0, probably not before.
94       
95       
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