It came to my attention this morning that Q4e doesn't check the timestamp on the index or use the api and thus downloads the index on every restart. Worse than the Artifactory issue where it wasn't known, this issue was reported back in June: http://code.google.com/p/q4e/issues/detail?id=465 It goes without saying that this is not in the best interest of the repository community. We're looking into ways to minimize the damage and cost from this and I hope that team takes extra-ordinary measures to fix and distribute an update as Artifactory did.
--Brian
