[chef] Re: Cookbooks - Chef Supermarket - Downloads counter

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Jan 18, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Julian C. Dunn 
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> On Jan 18, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Vincenzo D'Amore 
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>> does anyone know how works the number of downloads counter in the 
>> supermaket cookbook?
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>> Just to be clear, I have published few days ago an this empty cookbook:
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>> https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/empty
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>> now I see about 30k downloads (and counting), which are a little bit too 
>> many for an empty cookbook, isn't it?
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> I think it’s because every time Berkshelf hits the /universe endpoint to 
> resolve dependencies, it increments the access count of all cookbooks.

Yep, also search bots and a lot of other things, but berks-api was the final 
nail in the coffin.

--Noah

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