Gerrit: Linking Accounts

Several people have had new Gerrit accounts created when they tried to log in to the Gerrit website using an OpenID account that was not yet associated with their Gerrit account. As soon as the new user dialog appears, a new account has been created.

This is bad for several reasons:

• you won't be able to do anything with older changesets,
• it's confusing if there are several "John Doe"s when you try to assign a reviewer,
• deleting or merging the two accounts involves quite a bit of manual work since Gerrit doesn't yet have a function to delete/merge user accounts.

Please do the following to add a new OpenID login to your Gerrit account:

1. go to google.com and sign in with your old account (that you currently use to access Gerrit)
2. go to https://gerrit.lsdev.sil.org and sign in
3. on the Gerrit web page, click on your username at the top right of the page, Settings, Identities
4. click the "Link Another Identity" button; this opens a page that looks like the sign in page
5. if you are using another account from the same provider (e.g. two Google accounts), visit that provider's page and log out, then log in with your new ID
6. back on the Gerrit Link Accounts page, sign in using the new OpenID provider (such as Yahoo, or any from this list)
7. You should end up with both your old and new identities showing on the Settings/Identities page
8. After you do these steps, you can simply log in to Gerrit as you did in the past, using either account.