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

[Lova Andriarimalala]

Hi Alessandro,

Thank you for the tip. I will look into that.

@Lars I. Nielsen <lars.nielsen at lifadigital.dk> Could you please communicate
the name of the plugin and the new author so I can have a look?

Best regards,
Lova Andriarimalala


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On Tue, 8 Sept 2026 at 13:29, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> *QGIS Full Stack Developer   *
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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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