This worked for me, so I deleted the tag:

git push origin :cayenne-parent-5.0-M2
...
 - [deleted]             cayenne-parent-5.0-M2

Maybe it will work now for you, that the old tag is gone?

Andrus


> On May 31, 2026, at 2:31 PM, Michael Gentry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This command failed on me:
> 
>    mvn release:prepare -DpreparationGoals="clean install"
> -DautoVersionSubmodules=true
> 
> I worked past the error and ran the command again, but it failed because it
> couldn't create the tag because the tag already exists. Somehow it created
> the tag. So, I tried deleting the tag, but now I'm getting:
> 
>    [mrg@odin 14:15:58] ~/Projects/cayenne master> git push origin
> :cayenne-parent-5.0-M2
>    ERROR: Permission to apache/cayenne.git denied to mrg.
> 
> Same error when I use:
> 
>    git push --delete origin cayenne-parent-5.0-M2
> 
> Any suggestions? Or does someone else have a smoother path to take over?
> 
> Thanks,
> mrg
> 
> PS. The tag got created when I had used HTTPS as the clone method. I
> couldn't delete the tag that way, either (GitHub doesn't support user/pass
> credentials), so I deleted the repo and checked out using SSH, which is
> when I get the permissions error.
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 1:29 PM Michael Gentry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Andrus, I'm working on it. Trying to resolve errors. I suspect the
>> release guide is a little bit out of date.
>> 
>> On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Mike, wanted to check how things are going with the release. Eager to
>>> start using M2 and committing more cleanup code :)
>>> 
>>> If you don't have time for it now, not a problem too. Just let us know.
>>> Nikita and myself should be able to jump in.
>>> 
>>> Andrus
>>> 
>>>> On May 25, 2026, at 8:06 PM, Michael Gentry <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I should be able to start it Tuesday afternoon.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I think at this point we are ready to release M2. It has a huge new
>>> scope
>>>>> - a complete new agentic coding stack.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mike, do you still have time to prepare the release?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Andrus
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 17, 2026, at 11:00 AM, Michael Gentry <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Nikita,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't think there is an urgency to get M2 out, so if the outstanding
>>>>> PRs
>>>>>> make sense to include in M2, I think it is OK to wait on them.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> mrg
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 8:18 AM Nikita Timofeev <
>>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Several PRs are waiting for me, but nothing is too critical, so we
>>> may
>>>>> go
>>>>>>> ahead with M3.
>>>>>>> Instructions are all good, I use them every time.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]
>>>> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I just filed all my taxes
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Congrats! Which reminds me - I am still waiting for my numbers from
>>> the
>>>>>>>> accountants :)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> so I have some free cycles now if there is
>>>>>>>>> anything I can do to help.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> How about publishing the release. @Nikita - do you have anything in
>>> the
>>>>>>>> queue we'd need to deal with before M2 that can't be moved to M3?
>>> Also
>>>>>>>> anything missing in the release instructions at
>>>>>>>> https://cayenne.apache.org/dev/release-guide.html ?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Andrus
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 6:16 PM, Michael Gentry <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I just filed all my taxes, so I have some free cycles now if there
>>> is
>>>>>>>>> anything I can do to help.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM Andrus Adamchik <
>>> [email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Not too many significant new features in M2 so far, though quite a
>>>>> few
>>>>>>>> bug
>>>>>>>>>> fixes. So yeah, we probably should do it.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 4:45 PM, Michael Gentry <[email protected]
>>>> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Is it time for a 5.0.M2?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I noticed the M1 was released 2024-09-09 and that seems a long
>>> time
>>>>>>>>>> ago...
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> mrg
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>> Nikita Timofeev
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 

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