Unexpected "ERROR: direct uploads are not enabled" message

[Andrew Schulman]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:39:09 +0000, in gmane.os.cygwin you wrote:

>Somehow today I've just received an email from cygwin-no-reply@cygwin.com 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.

Andrew