title: Maven dependency on an artifact for which I have an active pull request
body: <p>I would like to keep a project close to the clean/approved maven process. I have an active PR for a performance improvement against one of the dependencies that I would like to include.</p>
  
  <p>What is the cleanest/ most approved maven way to reference the code from the PR?</p>
  
  <p>Some thoughts that came to mind:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Does maven have a means to reference a PR directly?</li>
  <li>Or maybe a local patch instead?</li>
  </ul>