How to find who linked a bug to a question, when there are multiple users with their display name?

Asked by Eliah Kagan

As a subscriber to https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+question/174557, I received a notification that said:

Question #174557 on linux in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+question/174557

   Linked to bug: #174698
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174698
   "Angle brackets should be converted in comments"

I know the display name of the user who did this (or, technically, what I know, I suppose, is that user's display name at the time Launchpad emailed me about the change), from this email header:

From: Andreas Kielkopf <email address hidden>

But there are two users with that display name:

https://launchpad.net/~a-kielkopf
https://launchpad.net/~andreas-kielkopf

How do I know which account it is? (I want to ask this user about why this bug was linked. But this is also a general question I've wondered about...but just not had to deal with until just recently.)

I'd be pleased to provide additional email headers upon request.

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Solved
For:
Launchpad itself Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Solved by:
Gavin Panella
Solved:
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
Benji York (benji) said :
#1

Unfortunately, I don't know any way of finding out through the web. I wouldn't be surprised if the user name was included in one of the X-Launchpad headers.

This seems like a bug (if there isn't already one for it).

Revision history for this message
Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#2

That information does not appear to be available in any of the headers either. The entire plain text of the message (with complete original headers) is posted below. Please let me know if I'm missing something. I'd be pleased to search for and file a bug, but I want to make sure I know the extent of the bug (i.e., is the bug that the information is completely unavailable, or just that it is unavailable to ordinary users via the web-based interface).

Revision history for this message
Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#3

Delivered-To: <email address hidden>
Received: by 10.227.196.5 with SMTP id ee5cs76195wbb;
        Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mr.google.com ([10.204.13.68])
        by 10.204.13.68 with SMTP id b4mr10209992bka.96.1318780861892 (num_hops = 1);
        Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mr.google.com ([10.204.13.68])
        by 10.204.13.68 with SMTP id b4mr10209992bka.96.1318780861568 (num_hops = 1);
        Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.204.13.68 with SMTP id b4mr8085985bka.96.1318780861531;
        Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
X-Forwarded-To: <email address hidden>
X-Forwarded-For: <email address hidden> <email address hidden>
Delivered-To: <email address hidden>
Received: by 10.204.67.16 with SMTP id p16cs5285bki;
        Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:01:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.227.201.130 with SMTP id fa2mr5742036wbb.13.1318780860894;
        Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <email address hidden>
Received: from indium.canonical.com (indium.canonical.com. [91.189.90.7])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ex10si10861362wbb.110.2011.10.16.09.01.00
        (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
        Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of <email address hidden> designates 91.189.90.7 as permitted sender) client-ip=91.189.90.7;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of <email address hidden> designates 91.189.90.7 as permitted sender) <email address hidden>
Received: from loganberry.canonical.com ([91.189.90.37])
 by indium.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71 #1 (Debian))
 id 1RFT91-0006KN-M2
 for <email address hidden>; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:00:59 +0000
Received: from loganberry.canonical.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by loganberry.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8A22E8217
 for <email address hidden>; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:00:59 +0000 (UTC)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Launchpad-Question: distribution=ubuntu; sourcepackage=linux;
 status=Needs information; assignee=None; priority=Normal;
 language=en
Reply-To: <email address hidden>
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Subscriber
To: <email address hidden>
From: Andreas Kielkopf <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #174557]: Just upgraded to 11.10 and computer is slow
 and locks up
Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:00:59 -0000
Sender: <email address hidden>
Errors-To: <email address hidden>
Precedence: bulk
X-Generated-By: Launchpad (canonical.com); Revision="14124";
 Instance="launchpad-lazr.conf"
X-Launchpad-Hash: 1c983fbc560b94aaa1576fa3d0a69b6ab6461682

Question #174557 on linux in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+question/174557

    Linked to bug: #174698
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174698
    "Angle brackets should be converted in comments"

-- =

You received this question notification because you are a direct
subscriber of the question.

Revision history for this message
Best Gavin Panella (allenap) said :
#4

> I'd be pleased to search for and file a bug, but I want to make sure
> I know the extent of the bug (i.e., is the bug that the information
> is completely unavailable, or just that it is unavailable to
> ordinary users via the web-based interface).

This information is not stored as far as I can tell. That's an
oversight and I guess it wouldn't take much to fix, though we have no
way to recover past information.

A quick and dirty half-fix could be to include the user ID in outgoing
emails.

We're not really focusing on the Answers application at the moment,
but if you file a bug about it perhaps someone motivated from the
community could pick it up and we can help them get a fix into shape
and landed.

Gavin.

Revision history for this message
Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#5

Thanks--I've filed bug 881154 for this.

Revision history for this message
Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#6

Thanks Gavin Panella, that solved my question.