I'm now maintaining a sub project under stackforge. There is only a master branch for now, and we plan to create a release branch like stable/icehouse, since the repository is gated by gerrit(git reivew), the situtation may be a little complicate here. I created a new branch locally, and tried to git push origin <new_branch> and git push gerrit <new_branch>, neither succeeded.

git push gerrit stable/icehouse Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: Processing changes: refs: 1, done
To ssh://gpanda@review.openstack.org:29418/stackforge/powervc-driver.git ! [remote rejected] stable/icehouse -> stable/icehouse (prohibited by Gerrit) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://gpanda@review.openstack.org:29418/stackforge/powervc-driver.git'

BTW, I'm not in the core gerrit group of the project.

Would anyone shed some light on this, please? Thanks in advance.