Don't try creating a new repo, it will create part of the meta data but not allow you to see or use the repo and the repo name gets taken.
However, it's still intermittently failing as of 14 UTC, so I haven't managed a Maven release build yet.
As I initialized it with a readme and an ignore file, I had to clone it. Cloning only succeeded by doing `watch git clone` and waiting a few minutes. But it worked.