associate GitHub/Twitter account with an existing Gittip account

[chadwhitacre]

Reticketed from #80. Right now you can register using either GitHub or Twitter but then you're stuck. You can't link a second account to your Gittip profile.

[chadwhitacre]

Also from #80:

if the participant_id is taken you should have the option of authenticating with the other network to associate at that point

[chadwhitacre]

Will need to deal with folding two Gittip accounts together, if a Twitter account is already associated with a different account or something.

[chadwhitacre]

I believe this would amount to sticking a UI knob in the "Linked Accounts" section of one's profile and making sure the /associate machinery for each network is able to handle it. Theoretically we can add as many accounts from each network as we like. Should also be able to unlink accounts (at this point probably disallowing removal of the last linked account).

[ironfroggy]

Should this also allow multiple twitter accounts linked to one gittip account, or multiple github accounts?

[chadwhitacre]

@ironfroggy Yeah, maybe.

+2 from @alex and @JustinLilly via IRC.

[chadwhitacre]

Also +1 from @readthedocs, though I merged his manually since he was trending and had money ending up in both.

[lyndsysimon]

It is also unclear at this point that this is not possible through the UI. When logged in an lyndsysimon, I went to the homepage and entered my own Twitter handle (@lyndsysimon). It said "Are you lyndsysimon from Twitter?
You’ll have to sign out and sign back in to claim this account."

So.. I signed out and back in, thinking that perhaps the system would give me the option to link an existing account on authentication. Obviously, it didn't, and now I have a second account with a pseudo-random name (749e9142746a) - presumably because of the conflict with my existing GitHub account's name.

[mirisuzanne]

I had the same experience as @lyndsysimon - but my twitter and github have different names already. I'd love to get them merged.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @voidspace.

[chadwhitacre]

Here's the two cases we need cover:

• Link a {Twitter,GitHub} account to an existing Gittip account.
• Merge one Gittip account into another Gittip account.

[chadwhitacre]

Soo ... I actually made a start on this a couple weeks ago. I just stash applied it and now I'm trying to get my head back in the game.

[chadwhitacre]

It looks like this is half of the implementation for linking (not merging).