How to change publisher name of already published

问题:

I want to change my publisher name in VScode marketplace. How do I do that?

回答1:

(Late reply) Did you have a look at this VS Code Github issue? Basically they say they could technically transfer the ownership, but still there are some consequences for your extension users due to a different ID.

The other suggested option is to openly create a new extension under the new publisher, and deprecate the former one.

Specifically, this is the main comment:

We can technically transfer ownership of an extension, but just be aware that moving the extension under a different publisher will change the extension’s fully-qualified identifier. This could impact clients, like VS Code, that try to look up the extension by its old ID.

If the extension doesn’t have a lot of downloads, it might be easier to just remove from the old publisher and re-publish under the new publisher.

Following is an example shared by Erich Gamma where a change publisher was done by creating a new extension under the new publisher and deprecating the old one.

(Sadly the referenced example is gone)

HTH