My intent is to build a full-blown online enrollment system for
dotLRN. Obviously, one of the core requirements of such a system
would be to prevent too many students from enrolling in a class,
hence the membership quota. (Other requirements would be to assign
fees to classes, assess student dues, and interface with an
accounting system - but the discussion for these belong to another
thread.)
I thought it's a specialized requirement, I didn't realize that it's
a use case wide enough to be implemented dotLRN-wide.
To sum up the discussion so far: we want a generic facility for
setting dotLRN community membership quotas. The quota is a
restriction that applies only to member-initiated "join community"
operations; admins can override this through the "add member"
facility.
Peter, thanks for the datamodel tip. I'll start digging in to the
dotLRN sources.
