Not a big deal, but Mark noticed that this test now downloads Spark artifacts from the same 'direct download' link available on the downloads page:
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala#L53 https://d3kbcqa49mib13.cloudfront.net/spark-$version-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz I don't know of any particular problem with this, which is a parallel download option in addition to the Apache mirrors. It's also the default. Does anyone know what this bucket is and if there's a strong reason we can't just use mirrors?
