[jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-5114) Clarify meaning of logs in Introduction: Topics and Logs

["Umesh Chaudhary (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Umesh Chaudhary commented on KAFKA-5114:
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IMHO, it has a co-relation with the previous statement: *The partitions in the log serve several purposes...*. So we described the log as data of the topic and partitions of the logs would be partitions of the topic's data.

> Clarify meaning of logs in Introduction: Topics and Logs
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-5114
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5114
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: documentation
>            Reporter: Michael Ernest
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The term log is ambiguous in this section:
> * To describe a partition as a 'structured commit log'
> * To describe a topic as a partitioned log
> Then there's this sentence under Distribution: "The partitions of the log are distributed over the servers in the Kafka cluster with each server handling data and requests for a share of the partitions"
> In that last sentence, replacing 'log' with 'topic' would be clearer.



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