Gump, centipede, maven, etc...

Over the last few days, I've gotten a greater percentage of the gump run 
to be attempted.  And the work that I did would not have been practical 
without the recent efforts of Stefan and Peter.  While this is clearly a 
labor of love on my and other's parts, relying us to do this across all 
ASF projects (even only the Java ones) simply does not scale.

I believe that the information that a pure bootstrapping approach 
provides is quite valuable.  Here are a sample of current failures:

http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/jakarta-turbine-jcs.html
http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/jakarta-turbine-stratum.html
http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/commons-jelly.html
http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/jakarta-james.html
http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-14/krysalis-ruper.html

For this information to be available on a more consistent and timely 
basis, there needs to be a way for the information necessary to do a 
bootstrapped build to be actively maintained.  This information may 
originate from a maven project descriptor, or from a unified 
gump/centipede/etc descriptor.

Furthermore, the code that actually runs the build (be it maven or cent) 
needs to be aware of the bootstrapped versions of dependencies and 
substitute them in place of the ones that the developer may have declared.

I don't know how to get this dones across all of the various codebases, 
but I am willing to do my part.  Are there maven and/or centipede 
developers out there who share this goal?

- Sam Ruby