is there a way to change my launchpad username for a username already taken but doesn't have any activity?

Thanks Diogo Matsubara, that solved my question.

Done: https://launchpad.net/~lipe

I've got the same issue, but I don't even know where to find the email address of that user?

My current username is 'bjorn-stabell' but I'd like to get 'beorn' which seems to be very unused/idle.

I think that you can claim that account as yours since it looks like is from someone that translated something or worked with a package somewhere. is not an active account yet

Hi Daniel,

My name is Bjørn Stabell and I frequently use the username 'beorn'.
On Launchpad I see that you have that username, but it doesn't seem
like you're using it. Would you consider relinquishing it for me?

Rgds,
Bjorn

On Friday 13 of July 2007 12:23:40 you wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
Hi :)

> My name is Bjørn Stabell and I frequently use the username 'beorn'.
> On Launchpad I see that you have that username, but it doesn't seem
> like you're using it. Would you consider relinquishing it for me?
I've never used Launchpad and I have no idea why my email is registered there
(or maybe I needed it once but forgot about it). I'm using only PLD Linux
distribution. I see you've made a merge request. I agreed and I hope this
will make the account name transfer possible. But there's a one condition:
you'll remove my email address and all of my personal information from that
account so your actions will not be done under my name etc. etc. etc.

Regards
Beorn (the other one)

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Bjorn, place a new question at https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+addquestion and I'll see what I can do. (Don't hijack open questions :-)

On Jul 13, 2007, at 18:57, Daniel Mróz wrote:
> On Friday 13 of July 2007 12:23:40 you wrote:
>> My name is Bjørn Stabell and I frequently use the username 'beorn'.
>> On Launchpad I see that you have that username, but it doesn't seem
>> like you're using it. Would you consider relinquishing it for me?
> I've never used Launchpad and I have no idea why my email is
> registered there
> (or maybe I needed it once but forgot about it). I'm using only PLD
> Linux
> distribution. I see you've made a merge request. I agreed and I
> hope this
> will make the account name transfer possible. But there's a one
> condition:
> you'll remove my email address and all of my personal information
> from that
> account so your actions will not be done under my name etc. etc. etc.

I think it was registered automatically by some PO import scripts or
something.

I was looking around, and I don't think there's any details left on
your account. I removed the email address already.

Thanks a bunch, Daniel :)

Rgds,
Bjorn

What the hell is going on here? Daniel, did you accept Bjorn's merge request?!

Yes, he did. It's all okay. :)

On Jul 13, 2007, at 20:01, Christian Reis wrote:

> Question #8315 on Launchpad changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/8315
>
> Christian Reis posted a new comment:
> What the hell is going on here? Daniel, did you accept Bjorn's merge
> request?!
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:36:07PM -0000, Bjørn Stabell wrote:
> Yes, he did. It's all okay. :)

Just for the record, that's not the right thing to do. It miscredits
Daniel's contributions.

The appropriate thing to do would have been a simple account rename,
something that any Launchpad admin can do.
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Oops. How would we do that? I should only have the latest Storm
changeset/bug credited to me, nothing else.

Rgds,
Bjorn

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:21:08PM -0000, Bjørn Stabell wrote:
> Oops. How would we do that? I should only have the latest Storm
> changeset/bug credited to me, nothing else.

Heh, we're close to a track record on wrongs here:

    a) You hijacked this question to talk about your own problem

    b) You merged somebody else's account into yours

    c) You have no karma!

        https://launchpad.net/~beorn/+karma

Anyway, this is just my good-humored way of saying "next time do
better". For the future: in this sort of situation, renaming accounts
would have been much easier. Daniel could have renamed his (by visiting
his +edit page) and then you could have renamed yours -- you even
contacted him via email, which was the right thing to do, so it'd have
been easy. And a Launchpad admin can do it for you if the person is
unresponsive.

Anyway, enough ranting, case closed.

I also have the same issue. My current name is set to the3dman13 and I would like to change it to the3dman. The user that has this name does not appear active, and I do not see an email for him.