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 -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
