GitHub user guozhangwang opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3618
KAFKA-5698: Sort processor nodes based on its sub-tree size 1. Sort processor nodes within a sub-topology by its sub-tree size: nodes with largest sizes are source nodes and hence printed earlier. 2. Minor: start newlines for predecessor and successor. 3. Minor: space between processor nodes and stores / topics; maintain `[]` for the topic names. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/guozhangwang/kafka K5698-topology-description-sorting Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3618.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 #3618 ---- commit bce7ea7d448fe15bebc45e4a12de5831c3f727db Author: Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-08-04T00:43:30Z sort processor nodes based on its sub-tree size ---- --- 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. ---