Unexpected "ERROR: direct uploads are not enabled" message

[Jon Turney]

On 04/03/2026 19:38, 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 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.
I made a mistake and an email like this got sent to all packages 
maintainers.

Please ignore it.

Nothing has changed with regard to uploads.

Sorry about the noise.