allowing non-developers to test bug fixes at apache?

[Mike Matrigali]

In DERBY-6045 tony makes a reasonable request for jars including an as 
yet unreleased bug fix to verify the fix as he is not set up to build.
There used to be unofficial jars available from one of the public 
testing sites, but that has gone away.  Is posting the jars used to run
a test off of trunk ok or not?

It would benefit the community to make it easy for bug reporters to be
able to verify fixes prior to release candidates.
Is there anything to be done, that does not break apache rules?