Hi there!
Back when I first tried to register on Drupal.org under my usual username 'marassa' I am using pretty much everywhere else, I was told that such an account already exists. I thought maybe I had already registered and forgot about it but as I never received password reset emails apparently it was another person. The account doesn't have any posts or commits or user info or any activity I can see. So the question is: do inactive accounts like this ever 'expire'? Do I have any chance to use the username that I would prefer and that I am using for most of my accounts elsewhere?

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Did you contact the user to see if the account is still being used? As far as I know, we don't have rules about deleting accounts that aren't used in the past X months, which means it's not something we do.

In the past, there have been cases of users wanting to use a specific username, but that has been resolved contacting the other part. We don't automatically do this.

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Hi kiamlaluno, thank you for your reply.
I would have contacted the user if I knew how. The user has no contributions whatsoever, no "Contact" link, and even when I manually construct the URL to contact him/her (https://www.drupal.org/user/xxxxx/contact) all I get is 403...

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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

I will send a message to the user, later today, asking to the user to reply on this issue.

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I sent a message to the user. (The Contact tab is always visible to Drupal.org webmasters.)

Hello marassa,

I am contacting you because a user wanted to use marassa as username, but the username is used from your account (https://www.drupal.org/user/3200329). Are you still using this account? Is it possible to change the username associated to your account?

May you post a comment on https://www.drupal.org/project/webmasters/issues/3038772 saying if passing the username (not the account) to the other user is fine with you?

Best regards,
kiamlaluno
-- Drupal.org webmaster
-- Drupal.org user administrator

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marassa commented

Thank you @kiamlaluno! Seems like no reply in 10 days?

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Priority: Minor » Normal
Status: Postponed » Fixed

Since there haven't been replies, even via email, I changed the username of the other account.

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marassa commented

Grazie mille @kiamlaluno!

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Prego!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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