thegreybeardofthetree OP , 1 month ago

@Bitrot @linux interesting, thank you for that information: I had been under the impression they did do manual verification of authors.

I did some checking: the closest I found to verification was this (so you're right- no need to be the original author, but a bit of vetting does seem involved).

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-of-all-new-snap-name-registrations/39440

My takeaway here is to use whatever the authors recommend (assuming trusted authors)!