I have accidentally created a twb1 account in roundup.  Please merge
it into my main account, "twb".

While looking at the user list to try to remember who is the roundup
admin, I noticed few other people have the same issue.  I suggest
taking this opportunity to merge their accounts, too.

Forwarding this note from Stephen (I'm puzzled as to why it didn't make
it on the tracker when Stephen replied. I think it was auto-dropped from
darcs-devel because that was automated traffic only, but why the mailgw
didn't pick it up confuses me).

By the way, Stephen, I couldn't find the corresponding roundup issue
number.  Is this known?

Thanks!

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Eric Kow writes:
 > Forwarding this note from Stephen (I'm puzzled as to why it didn't make
 > it on the tracker when Stephen replied. I think it was auto-dropped from
 > darcs-devel because that was automated traffic only, but why the mailgw
 > didn't pick it up confuses me).

I got it bounced back from darcs-devel, I don't know why you didn't.

 > By the way, Stephen, I couldn't find the corresponding roundup issue
 > number.  Is this known?

No, I just realized what was happening a couple of days of days ago
myself.  The Roundup mail gateway code is baroque, and I'm modified
ours so I'm not 100% sure ... but now that it's happened at Darcs,
too, it's probably Roundup.  When I get back from this conference I'll
report it there.

There may be a situation where somebody uses the same *mailbox* at
multiple *domains* where this is supposed to happen (of course Roundup
can't tell the difference between a person who has mail addresses in
two different domains from two persons with the same mailbox in
different domains), but I've also seen it happen to people who only
ever use one address.

Stephen wrote:
> It's not an accident, it's a roundup bug.

I'm not sure why it's a bug.  Initially I had one account:

    username: twb
    primary address: trentbuck@gmail.com
    secondary addresses: twb@cyber.com.au

The latter address is my work email.  Recently "cybersource.com.au"
because my work's preferred domain, deprecating "cyber.com.au".  So
the next thing that happened was that I sent an email from
twb@cybersource.com.au, resulting in two accounts:

    username: twb
    primary address: trentbuck@gmail.com
    secondary addresses: twb@cyber.com.au

    username: twb1
    primary address: twb@cybersource.com.au

I *later* added this new address to the "twb" account, resulting in
the current state:

    username: twb
    primary address: trentbuck@gmail.com
    secondary addresses: twb@cyber.com.au, twb@cybersource.com.au

    username: twb1
    primary address: twb@cybersource.com.au

I don't see what Roundup could have done differently to detect this,
since there's no way for it to know that cyber.com.au is "the same as"
cybersource.com.au.

However there must be some way to merge twb1 into twb, since currently
queries like "list all bugs created by twb" will not list the bugs
created by twb1.

Hi Simon,

I notice that you've had some experience merging duplicate users on issue1001. 
Do you think you might be able to describe the procedure (perhaps on
http://wiki.darcs.net/BugTracker/Automation ?).  When I tried to look into this,
I ran into the problem of the 'creator' field being reserved.

Many thanks!

I've updated Simon's scripts, adding a function to (a) merge users given a
primary user and secondary users and (b) to detect duplicate users (with the
same email address) and merge them using the most active user as primary.

I've applied (b) merging a fair number of users.
There are still a few scattered around, duplicate users with different email
addresses.  These can be merged on demand

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:26:29AM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> I've updated Simon's scripts, adding a function to (a) merge users
> given a primary user and secondary users and (b) to detect duplicate
> users (with the same email address) and merge them using the most
> active user as primary.

Vaguely apropos: there are various accidents/attempts to link debbugs
to roundup, see users NNNNNN and NNNNNN-forwarded.  You might want to
think about how to "clean up" those while you're there.

Note that one way roundup->debbugs updating works via a separate
script (that Debian runs), without the need for NNNNNN@bugs.debian.org
users in our roundup database.

Here are some users I've merged:

mergeusers('Sebastien.Hinderer',['Sebastien.Hinderer1'])
mergeusers('CBa',['Christoph.Bauer'])
mergeusers('cygnus',['cygnus1'])
mergeusers('duncan',['duncan.coutts'])
mergeusers('era',['era+darcs'])
mergeusers('gdgib',['gdgib1'])
mergeusers('granth',['grant.husbands','granthusbands'])
mergeusers('hanwen',['hanwen1','lilydev']))
mergeusers('ijones',['isaac.jones'])
mergeusers('isaacd',['isaacdupree'])
mergeusers('kapheine',['kapheine1'])
mergeusers('marnix',['marnix.klooster'])
mergeusers('norman-ramsey',['nr1'])
mergeusers('simonmar',['simonmarhaskell'])
mergeusers('kirby',['sinsalaco'])
mergeusers('tuomov',['tuomov1'])
mergeusers('tim',['t-kirstc','catamorphism'])
mergeusers('stephen',['turnbull'])
mergeusers('byorgey',['byorgey1'])
mergeusers('donald',['donred'])
mergeusers('robk',['robk-darcsspam'])
mergeusers('jcpetruzza',['dgorin'])
mergeusers('tom',['tom1'])

It's probably worth getting in touch with these people to let them know, then we
can close this bug

More semi-automated merging (with the help of a function to display users with
duplicate realnames):

merge_users('Aaron',['lists2546'])
merge_users('ajk',['antti-juhani'])
merge_users('fx',['d.love'])
merge_users('dastapov',['adept'])
merge_users('haskell',['greg'])
merge_users('bsort',['bublesort'])
merge_users('radford',['jim'])
merge_users('omega',['jovdmeer'])
merge_users('karel.gardas',['kgardas1'])
merge_users('markstos',['system'])
merge_users('WorldMaker',['admin1'])
merge_users('silverdirk',['conradme'])
merge_users('limare',['nil'])
merge_users('olivier.schwander',['oschwand'])
merge_users('ppessi',['Pekka.Pessi'])
merge_users('evilrob',['robk'])

I've split off Trent's observation about Debian bugs into issue1654.

I've also notified all people whose accounts have been merged and am glad to be
finally getting rid of this bug. :-)