merging accounts - timeout error

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

Yasen Pramatarov wrote:

> I've been trying several times in the last few months to merge the
> account "turin" to "yasen", which I use now in Launchpad. The other
> account was automatically created when importing some of my previous
> translations.
> 
> And I always end up with a "Timeout" error. The error id is different
> every time, but I finally decided to post it here and search for
> assistance ;) The id is: OOPS-760A2160

The account-merging code times out while trying to move the translations 
in "turin"s name to the "yasen" account.

This is a known performance problem:

   https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/162510

In summary: it's hard when there's too much data.  It may work if you 
retry a few times, each a minute or so apart.


Jeroen