Comment 9 for bug 1281

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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote : Re: [Bug 1281] Need some way to merge accounts without emailaddress or with only dead ones

Guilherme Salgado wrote:

> On bug 29177, Matthew East said he wanted to merge two teams. AFAIK,
> this is the first time we get such a request, and I don't expect they to
> happen very often, so it might be a good idea to allow it only on this
> admin interface.
>
> Is there any problems on merging teams that I don't know about? I know
> that at least the team owner is something we may have to special case,
> but there might be other things.

A team merge would work just like a person merge except that the
TeamParticipation and TeamMembership tables will need to be handled
differently. Probably best to update these two tables first and then fall
through to the existing person merge code.

We shouldn't handle conflicts on the actual team meta data like owner,
description etc. - this can all be fixed up manually after the merge rather
than complicating the system with attempts to guess.

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