[development] changes to contrib repository?

Has there been some change to the contributions repository? I tried to commit some changes to a module iIm developing and I got the following error message: ** Access denied: pwolanin does not have permission to commit files in: ** contributions/sandbox/pwolanin/chemical ** Please contact the owner of this project and request to be added ** as a CVS maintainer, see http://drupal.org/node/63634. running "cvs login" and supplying my password again made no difference., nor di checkout out a new copy. -Peter