I am planning on removing the snapshots from people.apache.org. As far as I can tell, the snapshots work fine if one is just downloading and using them; I am getting an extremely high defect rate, however, if I try to build NMaven, while pointed at the snapshot repo (which I need since I am using the maven 2.1 snapshots). I am getting things like overriding of local assemblies (so I need to build twice in these cases), as well as various resolving exceptions for new assemblies that I am adding to the project.
Regards, Shane
