[QGIS-Developer] Rules for plugin names

[Admire Nyakudya]

Hi

When publishing plugins a developer can choose any name to give their 
plugin. At what point do we act to prevent users from using known 
product names as their plugin name.

A typical example of the plugin GeoNod 
<https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/geonod/>. Taking this name at face 
value a users might associate it as the official plugin from GeoNode 
<https://geonode.org/>. I have opened an issue asking the author to 
reconsider naming his plugin to something different 
<https://github.com/Segl-segl/geonod-qgis/issues/1#issuecomment-6443133278>.


Should we enforce anything related to this or we just leave it as it is 
and we let the end users decide. I think we could add some rough 
guidelines to the publishing page to nudge developers to have names that 
are distinct and separate from known established products.

If i was an owner of Nike and someone produces a product called Nik and 
sells it next to my shoes would i be worried ?, maybe not, but food for 
thought.


Regards

Admire
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