Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> >> On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: >> >>> I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in >>> a r/o state. >>> >>> According to the XAP stat

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> >> This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and >> procedure.  On the table we have: >> >> Suspension would include: >> >>  -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) >>  -- disable com

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Craig L Russell wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> That doesn't seem right either. I think members should still be able >> to access it read-only. > > Fair enough. I just don't think it should be readable by the public. But members? Why not just authenticated commi

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Craig L Russell
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and di

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Ralph Goers
On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and distribution rights have not been verified, so IMHO

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-28 Thread Craig L Russell
I think we need to consider the risk to Apache of leaving the svn repo in a r/o state. According to the XAP status page, http://incubator.apache.org/projects/xap.html the copyright and distribution rights have not been verified, so IMHO the repository has not been vetted. I think we shoul

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-27 Thread David Crossley
Noel J. Bergman wrote: > This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. > On the table we have: > > Suspension would include: > > -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) > -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) > -- change the index of

Re: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-27 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Agree with Bill. Attic isn't the place, and Incubator has plenty or suspended/terminated/dead/inactive/whatever-the-politically-correct-term-is and I see no point changing this. -- Niclas On Jul 28, 2009 4:41 AM, "William A. Rowe, Jr." wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: > Would this be moved to the at

Re: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: > Would this be moved to the attic? Probably not. The Attic is the collection of all released Apache Projects. Podlings != Projects, and were never accepted as projects. Do we want to charge the Attic with such additional burdens of then completing all IP clearances that we

Re: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
Would this be moved to the attic? On Jul 27, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: What is the procedure for updating the Web site etc.? We need to let outsiders know that they should not depend on this incubator project. (There are tons of really solid incubator projects that others d

Re: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-27 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
What is the procedure for updating the Web site etc.? We need to let outsiders know that they should not depend on this incubator project. (There are tons of really solid incubator projects that others depend on so the theory that "incubating" means don't depend on it is just that, a theory.) Sanj

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Noel J. Bergman wrote: This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects The

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Ralph Goers
I would recommend that the public facing page for the project also be modified since it will still show up in searches. Ralph On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension

RE: Suspending Projects

2009-07-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
This thread really needs to be put to a conclusion as policy and procedure. On the table we have: Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects The idea being to both flag

RE: [VOTE] [RESULT] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-07-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, > I am raising this as a vote. In favor: Noel J. Bergman

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-23 Thread Ross Gardler
Ross > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > - Original Message >> From: Ross Gardler >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:40:12 PM >> Subject: Re: UIMA

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-22 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Nutch - Original Message > From: Ross Gardler > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:40:12 PM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > 2009/2/21 Otis Gospodnetic : > > > > Perhaps GSOC is something to con

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
. Ross > > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > - Original Message >> From: Thilo Goetz >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM >> Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re

Academic code drops (Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects])

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 William A. Rowe, Jr. : > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >> >> I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use >> apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be >> useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code >> especially from acade

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 Robert Burrell Donkin : > On 2/20/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> Niclas Hedhman wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: >>> >>> >>> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is this: UIMA is heavily used in academia.  Now academics have no >>

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/2/20 Janne Jalkanen : >> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is >> this: UIMA is heavily used in academia.  Now academics have no >> problems with open source, to the contrary.  But they have an >> overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation.  So >> they like t

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Solr - Nutch - Original Message > From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:57:09 AM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > > I know that we

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread J Aaron Farr
On Fri 20 Feb 2009 17:23, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> Can you perhaps contact these individuals one-by-one and get their >> view on how they see it. Perhaps ask them to publish their work in >> parallel, and perhaps the 'OSS bug' will bite a couple of them?? > > I have talked to quite a few of them, a

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
.org > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:31:50 PM > Subject: Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects] > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > > wrote: > > > >> We should probably try to find the collective energy to r

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: I know that we usually try to strongly encourage companies not to use apache as dumping ground but I wonder sometimes whether it might be useful to accept more contributions of proof-of-concept code especially from academia. It's often easier to start from some proof

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/20/09, Janne Jalkanen wrote: >> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is >> this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no >> problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an >> overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation. So >> the

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/20/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: >> >> >> >>> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is >>> this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no >>> problems with open source, to the contrar

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Janne Jalkanen
> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is > this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no > problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an > overwhelming need to publish and build up a reputation. So > they like to publish their source code on t

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA > before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. +1 I may be mistaken, but from the what I can tell UIMA has had to manage with barely any mentor support for the p

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: > > > >> My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is >> this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no >> problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an >> overwhelming ne

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: > My pet hypothesis (or maybe I'm just looking for excuses) is > this: UIMA is heavily used in academia. Now academics have no > problems with open source, to the contrary. But they have an > overwhelming need to publish and build up a reput

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-20 Thread Thilo Goetz
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > wrote: > >> We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA >> before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. > > That sounds like a healthy observation. My Q for the community is; Do > you have a he

Re: UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > We should probably try to find the collective energy to review UIMA > before the project's enthusiasm is sapped. That sounds like a healthy observation. My Q for the community is; Do you have a healthy and diverse set of users? If s

UIMA [WAS Re: Suspending Projects]

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/19/09, Thilo Goetz wrote: > Jukka Zitting wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be >>> considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors >>> and >>> the Commun

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-19 Thread Thilo Goetz
Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be >> considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and >> the Community as a whole. > > I'm not a mentor of Lo

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-18 Thread Bob Buffone
Hello PMC, As a committer on the XAP Project, I would also vote +1 (non binding of course) for moving the project from incubation to the attic. We have seen little community develop around the project and have been making little/no progress on the code lately. Thanks for everyones help throughout

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-18 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/18/09, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin > wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman >> wrote: > >>> The inertia is enormous, and I personally think that only a drastic, >>> disruptive change of the codebase (i.e. a ver 3.0, simi

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> The inertia is enormous, and I personally think that only a drastic, >> disruptive change of the codebase (i.e. a ver 3.0, similar to what Roy >> was talking about @ AC-EU-2

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jukka Zitting > wrote: > >> River is another long-term incubating project that seems to have lost >> its energy. However, there's still some remaining activity and as a >> mentor I'm putting some effort th

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >> >>> IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. >>> Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive >>> podlings should

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >> Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least > 4 >> > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed >> > suspension. Having re

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > >> IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. >> Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive >> podlings should just be archived into an Attic. > > IMO, you seem to have latch

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > >> IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. >> Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive >> podlings should just be archived into an Attic. > > IMO, you seem to have latc

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Cooper
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin < robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/16/09, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least > 4 > > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > > suspe

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-17 Thread Richard S. Hall
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RE: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > IMO suspension is the wrong way to handle inactive podlings. > Suspension implies fault and punishment. Long term inactive > podlings should just be archived into an Attic. IMO, you seem to have latched onto the wrong definition of the word suspend, which has multip

RE: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-17 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 > > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > > suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, > > I am r

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > River is another long-term incubating project that seems to have lost > its energy. However, there's still some remaining activity and as a > mentor I'm putting some effort there, hoping to achieve a similar > revival as we've seen in PDFBox

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be > considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and > the Community as a whole. I'm not a mentor of Lokahi, but I hang around there. The

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/16/09, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, > I am raising this as a vote. -1

Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 2/16/09, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> if projects get suspended - what happens to the repository? Is >> it still public available somewhere? > > Suspension would include: > > -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) > -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) > -- change

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Noel J. Bergman wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as a vote. --- Noel

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
+1. Noel J. Bergman wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as a vote. --- Noel

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Kevan Miller
+1 --kevan On Feb 16, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am r

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Eddie O'Neil
+1. Eddie On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: Noel J. Bergman schrieb: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009,

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
Noel J. Bergman schrieb: > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, > I am raising this as a vote. > > ---

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Luciano Resende
+1 On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Yoav Shapira wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 >> months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed >> suspension. Having reached,

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Yoav Shapira
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, > I am raising

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Martijn Dashorst
+1 On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, > I am rai

RE: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> if projects get suspended - what happens to the repository? Is > it still public available somewhere? Suspension would include: -- disable the mailing lists (no need to moderate) -- disable commit access (no need to review changes) -- change the index of projects The idea being to both f

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread ant elder
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with > XAP, > I am rais

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Craig L Russell
+1 Craig On Feb 16, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am

RE: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
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Re: Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be > considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and > the Community as a whole. I am long term apache user and have no benefit from projects

Re: [VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Cooper
+1. I see little chance of XAP being resurrected at this point. -- Martin Cooper On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 > months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed > suspe

Suspending Projects

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I have put XAP's status to a vote. What others do people feel should be considered? I have several in mind, but want to hear from the Mentors and the Community as a whole. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-un

[VOTE] Suspending Projects -- XAP

2009-02-16 Thread Noel J. Bergman
In August 2008, it was discussed that XAP had been inactive for at least 4 months. In November 2008, we again saw issues with XAP and discussed suspension. Having reached, now, February 2009, and still nothing with XAP, I am raising this as a vote. --- Noel ---