Github user felixcheung commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2750
I don't feel strongly about it, but fetching the url from the download
script (.cgi url) is actually fairly simple to do, but I admit may not be what
the maven download plugin support.
I don't remember exactly what these downloads are for ... can some of these
be artifacts on maven central repo? that might be easier.
in any case, I'm only worry about push back from the ASF release process of
downloading directly from dist.apache.org
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