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Revision 3011, 3.9 kB (checked in by jerome, 18 years ago)

Deleted an item which doesn't seem to be needed anymore, now that
charset encoding problems are fixed in PyKota are about to be fixed
in CUPS.

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3PyKota - Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng
4
5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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19
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        - Exports the original username and billing code in two
32          additional environment variables (in case they are
33          overwritten later).
34         
35        - Improve the documentation of edpykota's --printer command
36          line option.
37         
38        - Store the value of the user's account balance in the
39          printing history (the value at the time of printing)
40          as well as in the payments history (as a safety check
41          in case an user complains).
42         
43        - Add a pkrefund command line tool & optional CGI script.
44       
45        - PJL for non-networked backends (see ML's history)
46       
47        - Make the SNMP and PJL delay and number of loops a new configuration
48          directive.
49       
50        - Add the listing of the member printers in pkprinters if the printer
51          is a printer group.
52         
53        - Allow several levels of administrative priviledges by allowing
54          files like ~pykota/pykotadmin.someusername.conf (readonly by
55          user 'someusername'), and have the database server deal
56          with the permissions : no need for additionnal code or data
57          in PyKota's database !
58       
59        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
60          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
61          better integrate PyKota with these.
62         
63        - Add most configuration directives to the database itself,
64          while still allowing to overwrite them with the configuration
65          files at run time.
66       
67        - Ink accounting ala PrintBill.
68       
69        - Price and statistics per page format.
70       
71        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
72          is unavailable (server is down or something like that), so
73          introduce two directives :
74         
75            nodb: accept|reject|hold
76            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
77       
78        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
79          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
80          for current job. I did some testing but wasn't able to
81          make it work...
82         
83        - Documentation...
84         
85        - Learn more bits of PHP to help with phpPyKotaAdmin, which
86          is a GREAT tool !
87       
88        - Multidatabase support, e.g. store users in LDAP, quota 
89          related datas in PostgreSQL, history in text file,
90          and so on... For 2.0, probably not before.
91         
92        - Re-add support for LPRng if interest is high enough (it is
93          not for now)
94       
95       
96============================================================
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