diff --git a/opengem/test.py b/opengem/test.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/opengem/test.py
+++ b/opengem/test.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from opengem import flags
 
 FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
 
-flags.DEFINE_boolean('download_test_data', False, 
+flags.DEFINE_boolean('download_test_data', True, 
         'Fetch test data files if needed')
         
 DATA_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(
@@ -49,4 +49,4 @@ def guarantee_file(path, url):
         retcode = subprocess.call(["curl", url, "-o", path])
         if retcode:
             raise Exception("Test data could not be downloaded from %s" % (url))
-            
\ No newline at end of file
+
Make downloading test data the default, to fix hudson (hopefully)