If they are still developed, say how they should work and let bugs get reported.
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Jack Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > I've started working on the manual testcase for the time administration tool > (Bug #1184676) and have a couple of questions for the devs and QA folks. > > The first problem occurs when you try to switch the configuration from > 'Manual' to 'Keep synchronized with Internet servers'. Sync requires the > ntp deamon, which is not installed by default, so time-admin gives the > option to install it. Problem is, it doesn't work. If synaptic is not > installed, time-admin says it doesn't have the required apps to do the > install. If synaptic is installed, time-admin either hangs or crashes. So, > knowing this up front, my question is how to write the testcase. Do I say > there's a known bug so make sure you install ntp manually first? Or write > it up like it's supposed to work and just let people keep finding out it > doesn't until it's fixed? > > The second issue is that the help file is outdated. It refers to a version > of time-admin that pre-dates Precise and includes instructions on how to > choose a time server - an option that is no longer offered. Same question > here: what should I say about that in the testcase? > > Is this utility still being actively developed? According to the changelog, > it looks like that last updates happened around Precise. > > Thanks, > Jack > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
