Learning about Allura

[Trevor Daniels]

@Bug Squad

I've noticed a couple of things about Allura which are
worth mentioning:

a) When you add a new issue or change the status, 
   patch, label, etc, of an existing one, it takes
   some time, i.e. several minutes, before it shows
   up in searches involving the new value.  Allura
   maintains a large inverted index in order to
   reduce the time and resource needed to perform
   complex searches, but the price for this is the
   increased time required to modify that index
   when one of the field values changes.

b) This is a real nuisance.  The body text of issues
   uses markup.  See "Formatting Help" underneath
   the search buttons.  Some of this is useful, but
   some not.  In particular, a line with # in column
   one means "format as a huge header".  So a line
   of Scheme which is not indented appears huge.
   This means that Lily source code should be either
   indented by four spaces or a tab.  Alternatively,
   insert a line containing 4 (or more) tildes before
   and after the Lily code.

   As an example, see https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4581/
   before Simon works out how to fix it ;)

Trevor