Possibly that the change wasn't discussed so the server rejected it ;)
Um... ya... does the community expect that all changes, even the most trivial need to be discussed, agreed up, documented in triplicate and faxed to the four corners of the earth.
Hope not... else we are not going to get much done. ;-)
Serious now. It might've been because you attempted to commit your changes to http://svn.apache.org rather than https://svn.apache.org. It's a shot in the dark so take it with a pinch of salt ;)
I think you are right, I must have checked out the tree w/http not https.
Thanks :-) --jason
