Re: Unexpected "ERROR: direct uploads are not enabled" message

Brian Inglis via Cygwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin
Organization Systematic Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-03-04 12:38, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:39:09 +0000, in gmane.os.cygwin you wrote:
> 
>> Somehow today I've just received an email from [email protected] with the content as follows:
>>
>>> ERROR: direct uploads are not enabled for maintainer 'Andy Li' ERROR: error while reading uploaded packages from maintainer Andy Li SUMMARY: 2 ERROR(s)
>>
>> I have no idea what's happening since I haven't uploaded anything today.
>> Should I worry about it?
> 
> Probably not. I just got one of those too, and I haven't done anything lately
> either.
> 
> Sounds to me as though direct uploads are being disabled for almost everyone,
> as has been discussed on the cygwin-apps list recently.

Then we would also be seeing a lot of pushes with src_test defined as:

	cd $B
	cygtest || true

or patches to fix package test scripts, where packages fail a test or few from 
dozens, hundreds, or thousands! Speaking only about my own collection ;^>

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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