<div dir="ltr">Hi Admire<div><br></div><div>I just wanted to mention this QEP that Lova and I have been working on:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/Xpirix/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/blob/f113ed4caf5c2339952d574322e990a3f9a0a41a/qep-431-plugins-repo-federation.md">https://github.com/Xpirix/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/blob/f113ed4caf5c2339952d574322e990a3f9a0a41a/qep-431-plugins-repo-federation.md</a><br><br>It is currently in draft but it would be great to get your inputs as it will probably make discussions like this moot (and hopefully your life a lot easier).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM Admire Nyakudya via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>Hi</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>A typical example of the plugin <a href="https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/geonod/" target="_blank">GeoNod</a>.
Taking this name at face value a users might associate it as the
official plugin from <a href="https://geonode.org/" target="_blank">GeoNode</a>. I have opened an issue
asking the author to reconsider naming his plugin to something <a href="https://github.com/Segl-segl/geonod-qgis/issues/1#issuecomment-6443133278" target="_blank">different</a>.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>Regards</p>
<p>Admire</p>
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