Be able to merge LPIDs

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

In LP: #1166477, we added the ability to edit people. We probably want to be able to merge people that have two LPIDs.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> wrote:
> On 16.04.2013 18:44, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
>> Maybe I'm just overthinking this... The case that I'm concerned about
>> is when we need to "merge" a lpid. Uploads.objects also have lpids
>> associated with them, so the Person.object and each of the
>> Uploads.objects would need to have their lpid changed. Then we'd need
>> to update the other related objects like total uploads, etc... Next
>> we'd need to remove the row in the database for the "old" lpid. If the
>> "old" account still exists, we might need to add it to some kind of
>> blacklist to make sure the importer doesn't just create it again. We
>> get the lpid by from Launchpad using 'people.getByEmail(email=e)'
>> There's no guarantee that will give us the 'correct' one if someone
>> has the same email associated with more than one account.
>
> in the case where we override the LPID, we could potentially have a
> field called "original_lpid" which would be null, where we'd still store
> the original one in. I'm just not sure what to do if somebody changes LP
> IDs a couple of times... ho hum.
>
>
>> I don't know how many people have two LP accounts. Maybe its not that
>> many, but I was thinking that using a management command allow us to
>> do batch updating. Maybe this is unnecessary...
>
> Yeah. It'd probably take some data analysis to see if this is a concern.