Insufficient privileges on Salsa to create a default branch

[merkys@debian.org]

Hello,

it seems that my current privileges in Debian Science group on Salsa
('Developer') are sufficient to create new projects, but insufficient to
create default branches for them:

remote: GitLab:
remote: A default branch (e.g. master) does not yet exist for
science-team/coot-reference-structures
remote: Ask a project Owner or Maintainer to create a default branch:
remote:
remote:  
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/coot-reference-structures/project_members
remote:
To salsa.debian.org:science-team/coot-reference-structures.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to
'git@salsa.debian.org:science-team/coot-reference-structures.git'

Could I be promoted to Maintainer status? My Salsa login is 'merkys'.

Thanks,
Andrius

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Andrius Merkys
Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Saulėtekio al. 7, room V325
LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania