[HCoop-Discuss] Membership freeze?

[Adam Chlipala]

I propose that we freeze membership until we get to the point where new 
members can have their accounts set up only on the new servers and find 
there all of the services they need.  We're ready to start setting 
current members up on the new servers, and I don't think it's fair to 
expect volunteer admins to do anything serious on fyodor anymore.  New 
members tend to have initial flurries of activity setting up their 
domains.  Once we are ready to force everyone to switch over to the new 
servers, all of that work will need to be redone.  This includes work by 
new members learning the horribly ad-hoc Domtool 1, and then needing to 
drop it all and learn Domtool 2, possibly the very next day, in the 
worst case!

I also want to go further and suggest declaring an official policy of 
not accepting any more support requests having to do with fyodor, 
excepting emergencies relating to established services.  We would 
acknowledge that this means that members won't be able to achieve 
reasonable levels of service in some cases, but that our volunteer 
workforce simply isn't able/willing to spend time on setting up stuff 
that will be retired ASAP.

Any objections to these ideas?  Objections "on principle" that ignore 
the real costs of different policies to the admins will be summarily 
ignored. ;)