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3PyKota - Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng
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5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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20============================================================
21
22TODO, in no particular order :
23       
24        - Allow (some ?) commands to read their arguments from a file
25          instead of from the command line because of command line
26          size limitations (128 Kb under Linux it seems) : impossible
27          to add 30000 users with a single command !!!
28         
29        - Improve the speed of edpykota and/or introduce pkusers
30       
31        - Growl notifications for MacOSX users (while printing) :
32       
33          http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Projects/netgrowl.py
34         
35        - PJL for non-networked backends (see ML's history)
36       
37        - --freemoney/--freepages command line option for edpykota :
38          don't modify the totals or payments, but instead set
39          a freemoney/freepages attribute which will be decremented/incremented
40          **before** the real one.
41         
42        - Make the SNMP and PJL delay and number of loops a new configuration
43          directive.
44       
45        - Adds configurability to what happens when the user/group doesn't exist
46          when running edpykota. Rewrite the main loop to be able to abort
47          early, before any modification has taken place.
48         
49        - Add the listing of the member printers in pkprinters if the printer
50          is a printer group.
51         
52        - Allow several levels of administrative priviledges by allowing
53          files like ~pykota/pykotadmin.someusername.conf (readonly by
54          user 'someusername'), and have the database server deal
55          with the permissions : no need for additionnal code or data
56          in PyKota's database !
57       
58        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
59          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
60          better integrate PyKota with these.
61         
62        - Add most configuration directives to the database itself,
63          while still allowing to overwrite them with the configuration
64          files at run time.
65       
66        - Ink accounting ala PrintBill.
67       
68        - Price and statistics per page format.
69       
70        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
71          is unavailable (server is down or something like that), so
72          introduce two directives :
73         
74            nodb: accept|reject|hold
75            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
76       
77        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
78          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
79          for current job. I did some testing but wasn't able to
80          make it work...
81         
82        - Introduce the pkusers command.
83          pkusers --nogroup
84          pkusers --ingroups gr1,gr2,... --outgroups gr3,gr4,...
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        - Re-add support for LPRng if interest is high enough (it is
96          not for now)
97       
98       
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