[SPARK-1701] Inconsistent naming: "slice" or "partition"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Spark Core
• Labels: starter
• Assignee: Thomas Graves
• Reporter: Daniel Darabos
• Created: 02/May/14 23:16
• Updated: 13/Apr/15 21:40
• Resolved: 19/Sep/14 21:36

Description

Throughout the documentation and code "slice" and "partition" are used interchangeably. (Or so it seems to me.) It would avoid some confusion for new users to settle on one name. I think "partition" is winning, since that is the name of the class representing the concept.

This should not be much more complicated to do than a search & replace. I can take a stab at it, if you agree.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #2305 (mattf)
• links to: A Stack Overflow question about slices vs. partitions
• links to: Another Stack Overflow question about slices vs. partitions