Pod push fails to push to master repo

Question

I am trying to release a podspec on Cocoapods. According to the documentation, I should be able to use pod spec create [NAME] followed by rake release to release the podspec. Everything seems to go fine until rake release tries to push to the Specs repo.

Adding the spec to the `master' repo

  $ /opt/local/bin/git status --porcelain 2>&1
 - [No change] IPQuickModal (0.1.2)

Pushing the `master' repo

Username for 'https://github.com': brightredchilli
Password for 'https://brightredchilli@github.com': 
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git/'

It looks like it is trying to push to the main Cocoapods Spec repo, which will make sense as to why it fails. Am I missing something? It looks like the tool is easy to use, but I need push access to the spec repo. However, this is not clear on the doc page.

Answer 1

To submit a podspec to CocoaPods (currently) you must submit a pull request to the specs repo. Currently no one but the core team has push access.