Confusing interface when merging accounts
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Invalid
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Medium
|
Stuart Bishop | ||
Bug Description
I have just created my Launchpad account, and went to add a common secondary email address to my account (<email address hidden>)
I have just created my Launchpad account, and went to add a common secondary email address to my account (<email address hidden>). It then complained that this account already exists and suggested that I merge the accounts.
I clicked on merge to do this, where it prompted me for my account name. I typed in my email address, and it returned that it didn't know this account. I then clicked "(list)" and typed in my email address in there, and that screen just blanks out my email address and returns back to me with an error.
Someone on #launchpad suggested that I only type in the part before the @ sign, which seems to have worked, but I don't understand how the system is going to distinguish between the various 'jbailey's out there.
| Changed in malone: | |
| assignee: | nobody → stub |
| status: | New → Accepted |
| Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | Accepted → Rejected |
| Guilherme Salgado (salgado) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | New → Fixed |
We need to search for email addresses using substrings (slow) or fix the full text search to not give surprising results in this case.