Prevent applying for project without leaders

[brianmay]

It should not be possible to invite or apply for a project without a leader, as there is nobody available to approve the request.

[brianmay]

Raised issue on mailing list: https://lists.vpac.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/karaage/2014-April/000046.html

[brianmay]

Mailing list is no longer accessible, so copying emails here:

From self:

What should happen if somebody applies to join a project without any leaders?

At the moment the application will never get approved, because there is nobody suitable to approve it. I opened a ticket on this issue: #241

Problem is I am not sure what behaviour users' would expect.

Possible solutions:

1. Do nothing. Eventually institute delegate may find out, and they can assign a project leader to deal > with it.

2. Allow institute delegates to approve all applications as a project leader (should they get notified like project leaders? Or only notified if there is no project leader?)

3. Allow institute delegates to approve applications without project leader as project leader (should they get notified like project leaders?)

4. Request assistant from Daleks (probably would mean extermination of the applicant).

5. Prevent the person from applying to the project in the first place. Also prevent invitations being sent out from a project without a leader.

6. Some other solution I haven't thought of.

Comments?

Am leaning towards 2, giving institute delegates all rights that project leaders have, but not really sure of the notification requirements.

From Chris Samuel:

Hmm, I don't know how to answer that as we should never have projects
without leaders here at VLSCI and we don't have institute reps.

Of course that doesn't mean that project leaders can't go AWOL, but
we've not (yet) had a case of that we've not been able to resolve easily.

I think option 5, preventing an application, should be best, along
with a message asking them to report it to the helpdesk for assistance.

I think the Daleks would be counter productive as it would just punish
the applicant and not the missing leaders.