One of our PRs (http://albany.eng.hst.ams2.redhat.com/job/btny-pulls-narayana-catelyn/1089) ran on windows and failed due to a version issue with the maven-assembly-plugin. The blacktie/blacktie/pom.xml overrides the version set in the parent:

<!-- this is required for EL5 as the newer versions of the assembly plugin do not allow us to update the zip -->
<version>2.4</version>

We should either retest without the version override or try to find another solution if the latest version of the plugin still has the same issue (zfeng@redhat.com are you aware of any alternative?).