"Initial Availability" and "Availability"

[JensMyrup]

Whether running courses or larger events, the "availability" tends to be a memory eater. At this moment, a total of 51 labs are instantly available, thus eating up resources. The main reason for having a high availability is in the case of mass sign-ups during large events/classes where we expect many to sign up within a short duration of time. After this mass-signup phase the need for instantly available labs will be much smaller, but with the current setup we keep having all these labs available until the capacity limit is reached (often this is set as worst case, so it does not happen) or the event expires.

A more efficient approach would be that the specified "availability" is available only initially, but then drops to 2.

So if I choose an availability of 20, then 20 labs will be available initially, and after the first 18 signups there will always be 2 labs available for additional signups (until the maximum is reached).