[QGIS-Developer] How to transfer published plugins to another account ?

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Lova,

This is one of the few rare cases when your manual intervention is probably
needed: back in the days when I was the maintainer of the plugin website, I
did change the owner (or every other aspect of a plugin except for the
basename) from the Django admin panel.

Hope this helps


On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 10:21 AM Lova Andriarimalala via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi Lars,
>
> Indeed, there is no direct feature to "transfer the ownership" of a plugin
> to another account.
>
> As an alternative, I suggest adding the new user as a Collaborator and
> then making them a maintainer. You can perform this process from the
> plugin's details editor page using the old account, and it needs to be done
> across two save steps:
> 1. Edit plugin details > Add Collaborator > Save
> 2. Edit plugin details > Make new collaborator as a Maintainer > Save
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Lova Andriarimalala
>
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>
> On Tue, 8 Sept 2026 at 09:52, Lars I. Nielsen via QGIS-Developer <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>>
>>
>> I need to transfer a handful of recently published plugins to another
>> user account.
>>
>>
>>
>> The old account was created years ago, but my division became a separate
>> company last year, and so we have new emails and everything.
>>
>> Luckily I still have temporary access to the old email accounts, but that
>> stops at some point.
>>
>> When publishing the plugins recently, I just reused the old account
>> without considering the implications.
>>
>> I thought I could just update the account details. But it seems I can’t,
>> and I’m stuck.
>>
>>
>>
>> So I need to transfer the plugins to a new account. How do I go about
>> this ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen
>>
>>
>>
>> *Lars I. Nielsen*
>>
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