What about distributions at ibiblio?

[David Jencks]

I have been working with a couple of rather large projects that need to  
be deployed and tested in several environments, and I've come up with a  
method that I find very convenient.  However, for widespread use it may  
need some uploads to the maven repo, so I'd like some guidance on where  
various artifacts might go or if there is another way to get the  
artifacts needed.

The idea is to have a project for each environment/app server:
installations/
  -tomcat4
  -tomcat5
  -geronimo
etc.
The maven.xml for each of these projects unpacks the environment from a  
copy in the local maven repo, deploys the application ( the "large  
project" ) and if possible starts the server and runs integration  
tests.

Running "maven clean default" assures that the integration tests are  
run in a clean environment.

For geronimo we are building a suitable jar that can be unpacked  
yielding a runnable server.

For tomcat, there are suitable zip files at apache, but they are not in  
the ibiblio repository.
e.g.
http://apache.gnusoft.net/jakarta/tomcat-5/v5.0.28/bin/jakarta-tomcat 
-5.0.28.zip
http://apache.gnusoft.net/jakarta/tomcat-4/v4.1.30/bin/jakarta-tomcat 
-4.1.30.zip

So...
Is there some way to use the apache download site as a maven repository?
If not, should these zip files go into ibiblio as distributions or zips?
And, what would I need to do to get these uploaded to ibiblio?
many thanks,
david jencks
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