Hi all,
I have created a tutorial on how to setup Nexus with Forge. This allows you to create a portable environment with dependencies of forge in Nexus so you can better work in situation of reduced connectivity.
http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/2015/02/17/improved-minecraft-forge-modding-with-nexus/
It might be helpful for any modders as well as the core developers. Feel free to reach out if you want any further pointers. In the course of creating the tutorial I also found that the OSSRH snapshot repo and the Eclipse releases repositories do not seem to be needed anymore in the build at least for 1.8.0.
Let me know if you want me to create a pull request that takes those out of ForgeGradle and/or Forge.
manfred
