[Labs-l] New-user experience on Wikimedia Labs

[Chad Horohoe]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Ryan Lane <rlane32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> As for Gerrit, at some point your username was changed. You very likely
> encountered a bug that was fixed earlier in the week. If you changed your
> real name in your labsconsole preferences, it renamed your user. If you
> logged in with "Fran" to Gerrit, then your username changed, then tried to
> log in with "Fran McCrory", then Gerrit would see it as a duplicate
> account, since it doesn't handle username changes well.
>
> I'm not totally sure how to fix this. I'm sure Chad does. I've CC'd him,
> in case he's not on labs-l.
>
>

The CN changed at some point? That totally shouldn't ever happen,
and you're right that Gerrit won't know how to handle it (actually it
would treat the two different CNs as different users).

-Chad
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