I used to be able to push commits to the master branch all the time. But in the last month or two something has changed and when I try to push a change to master, I get the message:

remote: GitLab: You are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project.
To common-lisp.net:f2cl/f2cl.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)

I see that master is a protected branch. (I don't remember changing that or if it was always protected.)

So I created a merge request Now it says I have to go find someone with write access to merge the request. Oddly, just a month ago, I successfully merged the requests https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/f2cl/f2cl/merge_requests/2 and https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/f2cl/f2cl/merge_requests/1.

As the owner, I would think I have enough rights both to push to the protected branch and to merge my own merge requests.

Any ideas?

Ray