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1it's a pyt# $Id$
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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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22TODO, in no particular order :
23       
24        - LDAP : See if setting cn=ThePrinter for user print quota entries
25          could be done, only in the case where userquotabase=user
26          (idem for groups). Would make direct modifications (e.g.
27          with gq) more easy.
28         
29        - Allow the disabling of an user print quota entry without
30          deleting it.
31       
32        - Store the value of the user's account balance in the
33          printing history (the value at the time of printing)
34          as well as in the payments history (as a safety check
35          in case an user complains).
36         
37        - Add a pkrefund command line tool & optional CGI script.
38       
39        - PJL for non-networked backends (see ML's history)
40       
41        - Make the SNMP and PJL delay and number of loops a new configuration
42          directive.
43       
44        - Add the listing of the member printers in pkprinters if the printer
45          is a printer group.
46         
47        - Allow several levels of administrative priviledges by allowing
48          files like ~pykota/pykotadmin.someusername.conf (readonly by
49          user 'someusername'), and have the database server deal
50          with the permissions : no need for additionnal code or data
51          in PyKota's database !
52       
53        - Try to talk to education based distribution coordinators
54          (SambaEdu, SkoleLinux, K12LTSP, ...) to see how to
55          better integrate PyKota with these.
56         
57        - Add most configuration directives to the database itself,
58          while still allowing to overwrite them with the configuration
59          files at run time.
60       
61        - Ink accounting ala PrintBill.
62       
63        - Price and statistics per page format.
64       
65        - Allow the admin to choose an action to take when the database
66          is unavailable (server is down or something like that), so
67          introduce two directives :
68         
69            nodb: accept|reject|hold
70            lognodb: /path/to/file/for/later/batch/update/of/database
71       
72        - CUPS accepts the "STATE: ..." message as backchannel
73          data : use this to tell CUPS what action has been taken
74          for current job. I did some testing but wasn't able to
75          make it work...
76         
77        - Documentation...
78         
79        - Learn more bits of PHP to help with phpPyKotaAdmin, which
80          is a GREAT tool !
81       
82        - Multidatabase support, e.g. store users in LDAP, quota 
83          related datas in PostgreSQL, history in text file,
84          and so on... For 2.0, probably not before.
85         
86        - Re-add support for LPRng if interest is high enough (it is
87          not for now)
88       
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90============================================================
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