Great idea! I rejected PRs attempting to modify their path before.

I submitted 
https://github.com/jenkins-infra/repository-permissions-updater/pull/3047 to 
make it obvious that altering specific components is highly discouraged.

On Wednesday, 21 December 2022 at 17:45:20 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 7:47 AM Alexander Brandes <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> take a look at the RPU documentation 
>> <https://github.com/jenkins-infra/repository-permissions-updater/#renaming-a-plugin>
>>  how 
>> to do that.
>>
>
> I think this doc should be made to emphasize that you *really really* 
> should not ever do this unless you are pretty sure your plugin has no users 
> under its existing name.
>
> Changing the `name` (display name) is fine at any time. Changing the 
> `groupId` will break any Maven dependencies from other plugins, which may 
> or may not be an issue. But changing the `artifactId` means changing the 
> identifier by which the Jenkins plugin manager differentiates this plugin 
> from others, and will cause mayhem for users who have already installed it 
> under the old name.
>

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