Powertop article ready for review

[Ryan Lerch]

On 06/10/2015 12:08 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 05:38:30PM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>> On 06/09/2015 08:00 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>> I drafted an article on powertop from the pitch pile, and I believe
>>> it's ready for review.
>> I had a quick review of the article, and it looks pretty good!
>>
>> just a few ideas i had when reading it -- what do you think about providing
>> a screenshot of the powertop running in a terminal -- normally i would shy
>> away from doing this for a commandline tool, but because it is more of a
>> terminal application, i think it might be useful to give the reader some
>> context and to show what powertop looks like.
> Happy to do this.  I wasn't sure how people felt about Terminal
> screenshots but I agree it could be helpful.
>
> I'll add a screenshot shortly.

Awesome! thanks Paul!
>> Would it also be worth mentioning the new gnome battery bench[1]for users to
>> test out their battery life before and after setting the tunables? (this
>> might even be a good follow-up article, rather than jamming it in this one.)
> I took a look at g-b-b.  It's not very pretty, nor is it clear to me
> how to run it or what it does.  So I decided not to try to put it into
> this article specifically.  Admittedly, I didn't do any research on
> g-b-b before I installed and ran it.  But as a casual user who didn't
> know anything about it, I found it hard to understand.  Of course,
> that means it could benefit from the article!  I guess my question is
> whether it's ready for such a feature article.

I have played with it a bit, and basically it runs a series of tests (it actaully takes over your computer in some cases, and opens a browser, goes to a website, that kind of thing), and tests your battery usage while it runs the tests.

But long story short, yeah it is probably best suited to a seperarte follow-up article rather than tacking it on yours. :)

>>>   It also needs an appropriate featured image.
>> I filed a ticket for this in the design team queue [2]. And have already
>> done one up, and uploaded it to the article.
> Woop woop!  Sorry, that may have been my responsibility and I didn't
> know to do it.
Nah, filing a ticket is not something we have done ever in the past, just something I thought might be a good habit to get in to -- makes it easier for me to track and know when articles need feature images.

I will write up a wikipage on this now :)

cheers,
ryanlerch

> Thanks!
>
>> [1] - http://blog.fishsoup.net/2015/01/15/gnome-battery-bench/
>>
>> [2] - https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/383
>>