Comment 7 for bug 102204

I can think many good reason.

1. The forums is a communication tool just like IM, e-mail, or IRC. Maybe not as direct, but very widely used by the community.

2. Many times a forum thread is cited in a bug report. It may be nice for developers to check a Launchpad user forum profile to see if they are new to the forums, a veteran user, a team leader, moderator, or even a member of the Forum Ambassadors (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumAmbassadors?highlight=%28forum%29), a group design to work more closely with developers. In many case knowing a person knowledge level can help a developer tell if something might be a bug or a misconfiguration (not a perfect system, but it may help).

3. There has been talk in the past on syncing peoples Ubuntu Forums to their Launchpad accounts. This could be stop gap till developers on both sides have a chance to work on that.

I understand not wanting to chain Launchpad to Ubuntu, but in reality the relationship between the two is fairly symbiotic.

Any addition like this would totally be optional, just like having your IRC nick into your Launchpad profile.