Powertop article ready for review

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:16:57AM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> 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!

I took care of that Tuesday evening, so this article is ready
anytime.  Care to publish it?


> >>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. :)

I see it in pitches and when I get a few minutes I will try to write
something.

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

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