Technically you always could, but now you can officially change the owner of a plugin.
For most of you, this is going to be a “Meh, who cares” change. For me? Well, it’s always nice to let people take agency of their own plugins 🙂
In the newly renamed ‘Danger Zone’ of the advanced tab, we have a way for you to transfer ownership to someone. This must be done by the actual owner of the plugin, and they need to select the new owner from the drop down, which looks like this:
Why would I want to do this?
It’s pretty rare, but sometimes people want a specific account to be THE official owner of a plugin. Usually this relates to company-owned plugins.
Who’s the owner now?
The page will tell you who, but in most cases it’s whomever submitted the plugin.
Does it matter who owns a plugin?
Actually yes. At the end of the day, the owner accepts responsibility of everyone else who does things in the name of the plugin.
If I change the owner by accident, will you change it back?
You can ask, but we’ll have to talk to the new owner to make sure this was actually a mistake and not something else.