[SPARK-1483] Rename minSplits to minPartitions in public APIs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Assignee: Nan Zhu
• Reporter: Matei Alexandru Zaharia
• Created: 13/Apr/14 20:21
• Updated: 18/Apr/14 17:26
• Resolved: 18/Apr/14 17:26

Description

The parameter name is part of the public API in Scala and Python, since you can pass named parameters to a method, so we should name it to this more descriptive term. Everywhere else we refer to "splits" as partitions.