Issue publishing a package of which I am not the author

[wesleytodd]

I reached out to the author of the jquery-validation plugin and submitted a pull request to publish to jam. He is not interested, so I figured I would add myself as a maintainer in the package.json and publish it. Needless to say, it is not working. I am getting this error:

creating /home/wtodd/.jam/cache/jquery-validation/1.12.0pre/jquery-validation-1.12.0pre.tar.gz
extracting /home/wtodd/.jam/cache/jquery-validation/1.12.0pre/jquery-validation-1.12.0pre.tar.gz
modified mode 493 => 492 localization/messages_hr.js
Error: unauthorized
Must be package owner

What am I missing?

[wesleytodd]

So when you search for 'jquery-validation' nothing shows up....but if you browse the 'jquery' search results you can find the package on the third page.

Anyway, never mind....

[wesleytodd]

Is there any way to contact the user who published the package? His profile page is blank, so I cannot find an email on the site. And seeing as it hasn't been updated, and also doesn't provide the correct shim settings for Jam to do it's magic, I would like to be able to do something about it. He could just add me as an owner I guess....if I could get in touch.

[ryanramage]

Leave us your jam username, and we can add you as a package maintainer

[wesleytodd]

johnwesleytodd

Thanks!

[ryanramage]

ok, you have been added as a package maintainer for that package. Use your powers wisely. Thanks to @tbranyen who did the legwork :)

[wesleytodd]

Muahahaha, evil laugh.....they are falling for my plan.....I have all the powers.....

JK, I will get the package updated and throw in the jam config. Thanks for the help @tbranyen & @ryanramage!