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From: Trenton H <797416+stumpylog@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 17:54:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Updated Backend Ideas List (markdown)

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+## Breaking Changes
+
+### Dropping ARMv7
+
+- No more need to custom build packages for the Docker image
+- Allows updating cryptography, scipy and probably more
+- Allows updating the Python version (to at least 3.10)
+
+### Removing GPG / Encryption
+
+- Encrypting documents unsupported since 0.9, many years ago
+- Provides no benefit
+- Does still linger in the code base here and there
+
 ## Context Managers
 
 Updating the consumer and maybe the parsers to be context managers.
@@ -9,13 +23,7 @@ Updating the consumer and maybe the parsers to be context managers.
 
 - supervisord isn't meant to run as PID 1, S6 is
 - s8 startup can be separated into independent units, with dependencies between them, which could slightly improve startup time
- Initial work done in https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tree/feature-s6-overlay
-
-## Dropping ARMv7
-
-- No more need to custom build packages for the Docker image
-- Allows updating cryptography, scipy and probably more
-- Allows updating the Python version (to at least 3.10)
+- Initial work done in https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tree/feature-s6-overlay
 
 ## Migration Squashing
 
@@ -31,4 +39,10 @@ Replace `from .x.y import z` with `from a.b.x.y import z`.  Just makes things st
 - all in one library for notifications across multiple services, from email to self hosted instances
 - need to standardize what is notified and how it is tagged (ie always include `paperless-ngx`, and maybe a level like `warning`, `error`, etc)
 - Probably the user provides a filepath to the config
-- as much as possible, would likely want to persistent the client through a consumption, to prevent extra work
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+- as much as possible, would likely want to persistent the client through a consumption, to prevent extra work
+
+## External Services
+
+- External OCR services, using an API, could provide more recent tesseract and ghostscript versions, potentially fixing issues faster than Debian updates (thinking Alpine)
+- Is time consuming, so might need celery there?  And a database?
+- fastapi could easily set this up
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