gerrit account preferred email address

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/31/2012 06:38 AM, Ryan Harper wrote:
> * Karsten 'quaid' Wade<kwade at redhat.com>  [2012-03-30 16:51]:
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>> On 03/30/2012 02:20 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
>>> * Ryan Harper<ryanh at us.ibm.com>  [2012-03-30 11:41]:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've registered with gerrit.ovirt.org, current user is 'ryanh';
>>>> I have an email associated with the openid provider, but I want
>>>> to change this.
>>>>
>>>> I've added a new email via the web interface which sends an email
>>>> with a link.  When I click on it: the web interface says:
>>>> Application Error: id already in use.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone on the backend help me resolve this issue?
>>>
>>> I can't submit any patches via gerrit until I get this fixes as it
>>> rejects my Signed-off-by's since they don't match the gerrit id
>>> registered.
>>
>> I think the stall here is that the Gerrit admins are all based in Tel
>> Aviv, and their weekend I believe is Fri and Sat.
>>
>> However, I have root access to the host, but no idea how to make the
>> change you need. If we can figure that out, I'm happy to give it a
>> shot. I'll look around, anyone else let me know what you find.
>
> Thanks for taking a look Karsten, there's no rush; I just wanted to
> mention that it was more than superficial desire for an email change
> since the commit scripts compare username to SoB's.
>
> Again, thanks for responding; I'm sure it'll get resolved next week.

Ryan (feel free to reply off list if you don't want to share these details):

did you try to register a new email or link another identity?
what is the current email you see and which email is the one you want?

(gerrit isn't very nice on errors - mostly need to hack its db to fix 
them...)