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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        - Add a date header to all email messages sent, because some
25          spam detection tools cause SMTP servers to reject the
26          messages with no date.
27       
28        - Allow the disabling of an user print quota entry without
29          deleting it.
30       
31        - Allow people to force the locale to use.
32       
33        - Exports the original username and billing code in two
34          additional environment variables (in case they are
35          overwritten later).
36         
37        - Improve the documentation of edpykota's --printer command
38          line option.
39         
40        - Store the value of the user's account balance in the
41          printing history (the value at the time of printing)
42          as well as in the payments history (as a safety check
43          in case an user complains).
44         
45        - Add a pkrefund command line tool & optional CGI script.
46       
47        - PJL for non-networked backends (see ML's history)
48       
49        - Make the SNMP and PJL delay and number of loops a new configuration
50          directive.
51       
52        - Add the listing of the member printers in pkprinters if the printer
53          is a printer group.
54         
55        - Allow several levels of administrative priviledges by allowing
56          files like ~pykota/pykotadmin.someusername.conf (readonly by
57          user 'someusername'), and have the database server deal
58          with the permissions : no need for additionnal code or data
59          in PyKota's database !
60       
61        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
62          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
63          better integrate PyKota with these.
64         
65        - Add most configuration directives to the database itself,
66          while still allowing to overwrite them with the configuration
67          files at run time.
68       
69        - Ink accounting ala PrintBill.
70       
71        - Price and statistics per page format.
72       
73        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
74          is unavailable (server is down or something like that), so
75          introduce two directives :
76         
77            nodb: accept|reject|hold
78            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
79       
80        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
81          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
82          for current job. I did some testing but wasn't able to
83          make it work...
84         
85        - Documentation...
86         
87        - Learn more bits of PHP to help with phpPyKotaAdmin, which
88          is a GREAT tool !
89       
90        - Multidatabase support, e.g. store users in LDAP, quota 
91          related datas in PostgreSQL, history in text file,
92          and so on... For 2.0, probably not before.
93         
94        - Re-add support for LPRng if interest is high enough (it is
95          not for now)
96       
97       
98============================================================
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