** Description changed: + [Note this bug was accidentally filed under Ubuntu originally; it's + invalid there, and is really a bug in the 'launchpad' project.] + The UI for merging a user account Y into account X is backwards: - 1. Log in as user X (the account you're trying to keep) - 2. Click on username in upper right to go to https://launchpad.net/~X - 3. Now you're on the Profile page; click "Change Details", bringing you to https://edge.launchpad.net/~X/+edit - 4. Scroll down to "Never going to use Launchpad again? Deactivate your account." - 5. Even though this is the account you want to *keep*, click "Deactivet your account." - 6. Ignore most of the UI on the resultant page, and look down to "If you have multiple accounts, you should merge them instead!" - 7. Click on "merge them instead", taking you to https://edge.launchpad.net/people/+requestmerge - 8. Read the instructions, do the needful. + 1. Log in as user X (the account you're trying to keep) + 2. Click on username in upper right to go to https://launchpad.net/~X + 3. Now you're on the Profile page; click "Change Details", bringing you to https://edge.launchpad.net/~X/+edit + 4. Scroll down to "Never going to use Launchpad again? Deactivate your account." + 5. Even though this is the account you want to *keep*, click "Deactivet your account." + 6. Ignore most of the UI on the resultant page, and look down to "If you have multiple accounts, you should merge them instead!" + 7. Click on "merge them instead", taking you to https://edge.launchpad.net/people/+requestmerge + 8. Read the instructions, do the needful. So the problem is mainly that https://edge.launchpad.net/people/+requestmerge is too hard to find. The only path I know for finding it involves stepping through a dangerous minefield labeled "deactivate your account" when that's precisely what you're trying not to do. Proposed solution: On the Edit Profile page (https://edge.launchpad.net/~kfogel/+edit), at the bottom under "Other Actions", add a new action entitled "Merge another account into this one", which would link to https://edge.launchpad.net/people/+requestmerge. While this wouldn't be perfect, since "Change Details" is still an odd way to reach a merging action, it would at least be a big improvement over expecting the user to click "deactivate" on the account they want to keep. Note: this is not really the same as bug #165148, but someone looking at that bug might also want to look at this one at the same time.
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