Hi Dennis, I just added a note on https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MVNCENTRAL-1563
IMHO, it's just someone without a repository manager and with a badly configured build server that builds a lot (other badly managed users just seem to build a lot less: nobody should download any release artifact tens of times) Notice that Aether has just been retired from Eclipse and migrated to Apache Maven renamed as "Maven Artifact Resolver" https://maven.apache.org/resolver/ (thanks to the Eclipse foundation for their help managing this smooth change): the new component starts to be used with Maven 3.5.0, and the communication channel should be [email protected] and [email protected] Regards, Hervé Apache Maven PMC member Le jeudi 23 février 2017, 20:42:40 CET Denis Magda a écrit : > Dear Eclipse Aether community, > > In January 2017 Sonatype Nexus repository reported a suspiciously enormous > number of downloads for Apache Ignite artifacts. After conducting the > investigation with the help of Sonatype folks we figured out that Aether > contributed to the most of downloads: > https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MVNCENTRAL-1563 > <https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MVNCENTRAL-1563> > > For instance, here's a breakdown of just one hour on 2/14/2017, showing the > top 10 most requested files from this Aether side: > > 1697 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-core/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-core-4.1.0.REL > EASE.jar 1171 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-beans/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-beans-4.1.0.R > ELEASE.jar 1160 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-core/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-core-4.1.0.REL > EASE.jar.sha1 964 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-beans/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-beans-4.1.0.R > ELEASE.jar.sha1 650 > /maven2/org/apache/ignite/ignite-core/1.7.0/ignite-core-1.7.0.jar 540 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-expression/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-expressi > on-4.1.0.RELEASE.jar 405 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-aop/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-aop-4.1.0.RELEA > SE.jar 404 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-tx/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-tx-4.1.0.RELEASE > .jar.sha1 404 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-tx/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-tx-4.1.0.RELEASE > .jar 404 > /maven2/org/springframework/spring-aop/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-aop-4.1.0.RELEA > SE.jar.sha1 > > Why does Aether behaves like a crawler or bot that keeps downloading the > same artifacts constantly? Is this a bug? > > Denis, > Apache Ignite PMC Chair
