Help requested for Ubuntu Brainstorm response on Power Management

[Amit Kucheria]

Hi Matt,

On 10 Nov 23, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Once you've read the details below, please respond with an acknowledgement and
> let me know if you can participate.  The expected time investment is on the
> order of a couple of hours over the next couple of weeks.

I'll come up with a response.

Regards,
Amit

> The Technical Board recently began a new program to respond to top voted topics
> on Ubuntu Brainstorm:
> 
> http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/11/03/weathering-the-ubuntu-brainstorm/
> 
> Our goal is to improve our responsiveness to the questions, concerns and
> suggestions we receive from the user community.  Note that this does NOT mean
> that we will commit to following the suggestions, but we will evaluate and
> respond to them.  By explaining what we will (or won't) do and why, we will
> show that we are paying attention and trying to make good decisions on behalf
> of our users.
> 
> The way the program works is that the Technical Board identifies people within
> the Ubuntu project who are knowledgeable in the specific topics proposed in
> Brainstorm, and asks each of them to write a short response to one topic.
> 
> This is why I'm writing to you now. :-)
> 
> One of the most popular topics in brainstorm at present is power management:
> 
> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24782/
> 
> This is obviously a complex topic, but an important one to our community and
> deserving of a thoughtful response.
> 
> Since you are well versed in this area, we would appreciate if you could spend
> a short time reading the Brainstorm content about it and writing a few
> paragraphs.  You don't need to have all the answers, and I encourage you to ask
> for input from others who might have a view on the issue.  This can be in the
> form of a blog post, an email, or any other suitable format.  It shouldn't take
> more than an hour or two to complete.
> 
> Our goal is to have everything ready for publication by the 8th of December.
> Can you confirm that you're willing and able to help with this?
> 
> You can formulate your response as you see fit, but make sure that the tone is
> sympathetic.  Many of the comments in Brainstorm take the form of demands or
> complaints: just treat these as if they were questions, and answer them
> politely.  Try to listen to the *need* behind the suggestion, not just the
> suggestion itself, and connect with your audience by telling a story about it.
> 
> Here are some example formulas which might be helpful to you:
> 
>  * "It sounds like the problem described here is X.  We address that in Ubuntu
>    today by doing A, B and C.  Maybe that's not working for everyone because
>    of Y.  We could improve this by doing Z."
> 
>  * "I would love to see a new feature like that in Ubuntu.  It's consistent
>    with the way other parts of Ubuntu work, and seems genuinely useful.
>    We're busy with some higher priority projects at the moment like X, but
>    if someone is interested in writing a patch for this, I will help them
>    get it into Ubuntu and upstream."
> 
>  * "This is a really hard problem without an easy solution.  It's complex
>    because of X, Y and Z.  It will take some time for this to be completely
>    solved, but here are a few projects we're working on which will make things
>    better, bit by bit."
> 
>  * "That's an easy fix.  I've written a patch and uploaded it to Natty.  It
>    will be in the 11.04 release!"
> 
>  * "That's a great idea, and we already thought of it!  Here's the blueprint,
>    and here's how you can follow along as this gets implemented in Natty."
> 
>  * "I passed on your suggestion to the upstream developer of the software, and
>    we had a conversation about it.  Here's what we decided."
> 
>  * "This seems like a genuine problem, but I'm not sure that's the right
>    solution, because of X and Y.  I asked our usability expert Jill about
>    this, and here's what she suggested."
> 
>  * "I didn't understand what the problem was here, so I had a conversation on
>    IRC with Jamie, who submitted this topic to Brainstorm to understand better.
>    Here's how it went:
> 
>    [...]
> 
>    In the end, we both decided that the best course of action is X."
> 
> If you have any further questions about what is expected here, please let me
> know.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz

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