# Hosting Gradle Plugins - Nexus is removing files randomly

## post by mareksierocinski on Oct 30, 2024

Hello,

I’m using Nexus OSS 3.68.1-02. I have created a maven-type hosted repository, to which I’m publishing my custom Gradle plugins.

Gradle is a bit “special”. Let’s say that your plugin is in group “org.foo”, with name “bar” and version “1.2.3”. Normally Maven would publish packages like this:

```cpp
org / foo / bar / 1.2.3 / bar-1.2.3.jar
org / foo / bar / 1.2.3 / bar-1.2.3.module
org / foo / bar / 1.2.3 / bar-1.2.3.pom
org / foo / bar / maven-metadata.xml
```

But if you publish a Gradle plugin it looks like this:

```cpp
org / foo / bar / 1.2.3 / bar-1.2.3.jar
org / foo / bar / 1.2.3 / bar-1.2.3.module
org / foo / bar / 1.2.3 / bar-1.2.3.pom
org / foo / bar / org.foo.bar.gradle.plugin / 1.2.3 / org.foo.bar.gradle.plugin-1.2.3.pom
org / foo / bar / org.foo.bar.gradle.plugin / maven-metadata.xml
org / foo / bar / maven-metadata.xml
```

And the strangest thing is that after some time (I cannot tell exactly when, because sometimes it's like days, other times it's weeks or even months) the path `org / foo / bar / org.foo.bar.gradle.plugin` disappears! Just like that! Nothing in logs. Oh, and there is no cleanup policy set up on this repository.

Is it known issue?

## post by mpiggott on Oct 31, 2024

Do you mean the metadata disappears or the pom?

The other question might be whether they are still available for download.