[WG: Sakai QA] why a separate step to join sites?

[David Haines]

Currently if you try to access a site that you can join but have not  
yet joined you'll get a "site unavailable" message.  Among other  
things this makes inviting people to a site awkward.  If you create a  
site and email a URL to people who can have access they'll need to  
manually join before they get access.  At Michigan we're running a  
modified version of code that Ian Boston created that will  
automatically join people to sites they are eligible to join but this  
requires distributing a special URL.

But if you are trying to access a site that you have permission to  
join what is the use of having an explicit join step?  I do see the  
use of a tool that lists separately sites you have joined and sites  
you can join.  I see the value of being able to unjoin sites you no  
longer need to a member of.  I just don't see the use of requiring  
someone to explicitly join a site.

Is there some reason that the default behavior of Sakai (2.x) should  
not be changed to automatically join people to sites they are trying  
to visit as long as they are eligible to join the site?

This question comes from looking at http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15832 
.

Any comments are welcome.

- Dave

David Haines
CTools Developer
Digital Media Commons
University of Michigan
dlhaines at umich.edu



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