GitHub user mihbor opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2948
KAFKA-5144 renamed and added comments to make it clear what's going on The descendingSubsequence is a misnomer. The linked list is actually arranged so that the lowest timestamp is first and larger timestamps are added to the end, therefore renamed to ascendingSubsequence. The minElem variable was also misnamed. It's actually the current maximum element as it's taken from the end of the list. Added comment to get() to make it clear it's returning the lowest timestamp. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/mihbor/kafka patch-4 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2948.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2948 ---- commit c8d5f4646e412917495f720102774e450ae06265 Author: mihbor <mih...@users.noreply.github.com> Date: 2017-04-30T18:36:08Z KAFKA-5144 rename variables and add comments to make it clear what's going on The descendingSubsequence is a misnomer. The linked list is actually arranged so that the lowest timestamp is first and larger timestamps are added to the end, therefore renamed to ascendingSubsequence. The minElem variable was also misnamed. It's actually the current maximum element as it's taken from the end of the list. Added comment to get() to make it clear it's returning the lowest timestamp. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---