[KAFKA-10828] Consider using "acknowledged" over "endorsing" for voters which have recognized the current leader

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Sagar Rao
• Reporter: Jason Gustafson
• Created: 09/Dec/20 01:11
• Updated: 22/Dec/20 18:05
• Resolved: 22/Dec/20 18:05

Description

We use the term "endorsing voter" to indicate a voter who has acknowledge the current leader by either responding to a `BeginQuorumEpoch` request from the leader or by beginning to send `Fetch` requests. This terminology seemed to cause a little confusion in https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/9539/files. An alternative to "endorsing" that we were considering is "acknowledging."

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9737