[KAFKA-5114] Clarify meaning of logs in Introduction: Topics and Logs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael Ernest
• Created: 22/Apr/17 22:00
• Updated: 03/May/17 22:02

Description

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.