About 4 days ago (around when Vercel automatically migrated my personal account to a team account), automatic deployments (from GitHub commuts) stopped working. I tried to manually create a deployment, and I got an error saying “A commit author is required”.
I assume this is because the commits come from git-gateway (GitHub - netlify/git-gateway: A Gateway to Git APIs), that creates commits from my CMS, but populates the git author field with just the details of the CMS user, not an actual GitHub user.
Until this happened, it worked perfectly, and Vercel even displayed the name of the CMS user for who created the deployment.
I checked and I’m not close to hitting any account limits.
I’d appreciate any suggestions of how to fix this, as the project is quite large so it’d be a big effort to move it to Cloudflare Pages.
Your builds are most likely blocked because you are not the owner of the team. On Hobby, Vercel’s free plan, the commit author must be the owner of the Hobby account.
If you’re looking to collaborate on a project or team that you don’t own, you have a few options!
Make your repository public. Vercel loves open source technology! Collaboration is free for public repositories.
Upgrade to Pro and add @username as a member. A Pro subscription is required to access Vercel’s collaborative features.
If you’re an owner of the team, upgrade and add @username as a member.
If you’re a user who would like to request access, head to the /teams/invite link in the message.
If you’re already a member of the name team, make sure that your Vercel account is connected to your git provider name account.
