Transferring ownership of an extension

[ewanharris]

Apologies if this is better suited for https://github.com/EclipseFdn/open-vsx.org, I wasn't too sure where it should land.

We are looking to (in the future) handoff our extension to a different publish and would like this to be completely clean (i.e. no lingering references like in the extension id).

Is it possible to do this and keep the existing extension on openvsx or would the extension have to be removed and published under a new namespace?

[spoenemann]

Hi! Currently there's no way to change a published extension, so you'd have to republish under a new namespace. Removing the older extension seems dangerous as others might still depend on it. If at all, it should be done after a deprecation period. Requests for removal go to https://github.com/EclipseFdn/open-vsx.org

[amvanbaren]

Hi @ewanharris, did you manage to transfer the ownership of the extension?

[ewanharris]

Hey @amvanbaren, we ended up just unpublishing the initial extension and then publishing a new one with a different name. Not ideal as we lost all the initial installs, but we added some migration steps and waited some time before unpublishing the initial extension