Re: RFC for the migration of the membership management

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhay <sankarshan randomink org>]

Vincent Untz wrote:
> Thanks to Ross Golder, we might have an easy way to manage the
> Foundation memberships in a near future. It will be web-based. No more
> CVS files. Yay!

Thanks Ross - you will end up making the days of lots of folks.

> Right now, I'm wondering if we should migrate all our data (i.e. even
> migrate the previous members who did not renew their membership) or just
> the current data. As I'm getting lazy, I'd be for the easy way and
> ignore all the old data.

Ideally we should be looking towards migrating *all data*. Serves as a
base reference point rather than take the hassle of maitaining 2
separate information silos.

> Also, I don't think we need to keep the contributions and contacts in
> the database since, I suppose, they're only need to process the
> applications.

Might be a good idea given the recent thread on membership-committee on
L10n work. For contacts, perhaps keeping a single contact would be good.
Serves as a point of reference.

Regards
Sankarshan

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