diff --git a/server/MAINTAINERS b/server/MAINTAINERS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..db33365bcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/MAINTAINERS
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Solomon Hykes <solomon@docker.com>
diff --git a/server/server.go b/server/server.go
index 72244f4e6b..0ab0a4a00b 100644
--- a/server/server.go
+++ b/server/server.go
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+// DEPRECATION NOTICE. PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANYTHING TO THIS FILE.
+//
+// server/server.go is deprecated. We are working on breaking it up into smaller, cleaner
+// pieces which will be easier to find and test. This will help make the code less
+// redundant and more readable.
+//
+// Contributors, please don't add anything to server/server.go, unless it has the explicit
+// goal of helping the deprecation effort.
+//
+// Maintainers, please refuse patches which add code to server/server.go.
+//
+// Instead try the following files:
+// * For code related to local image management, try graph/
+// * For code related to image downloading, uploading, remote search etc, try registry/
+// * For code related to the docker daemon, try daemon/
+// * For small utilities which could potentially be useful outside of Docker, try pkg/
+// * For miscalleneous "util" functions which are docker-specific, try encapsulating them
+//     inside one of the subsystems above. If you really think they should be more widely
+//     available, are you sure you can't remove the docker dependencies and move them to
+//     pkg? In last resort, you can add them to utils/ (but please try not to).
+
 package server
 
 import (