hello-samza build fails due to missing dependency: org.apache.samza:samza-serializers_2.10:jar:0.8.0-SNAPSHOT

Following the steps from the hello-samza walkthrough (http://samza.incubator.apache.org/startup/hello-samza/latest/) leads to a broken build on 'latest' (the master branch does build):

$ git checkout latest
Switched to branch 'latest'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/latest'.
$ mvn package
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
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[INFO] Building Samza Example 0.8.0
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[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.samza:samza-serializers_2.10:jar:0.8.0-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 0.573s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Nov 28 13:18:47 PST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/245M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project hello-samza: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.apache.samza:hello-samza:jar:0.8.0: Failure to find org.apache.samza:samza-serializers_2.10:jar:0.8.0-SNAPSHOT in file:///Users/josh/.m2/repository was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of my-local-repo has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]