abbccdda commented on a change in pull request #10700: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/10700#discussion_r634931818
########## File path: clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/NetworkClient.java ########## @@ -1089,8 +1089,8 @@ public void handleSuccessfulResponse(RequestHeader requestHeader, long now, Meta if (!errors.isEmpty()) log.warn("Error while fetching metadata with correlation id {} : {}", requestHeader.correlationId(), errors); - // Don't update the cluster if there are no valid nodes...the topic we want may still be in the process of being - // created which means we will get errors and no nodes until it exists + // Don't update the cluster if there are no valid nodes which may happened during the startup phase of Review comment: may happened -> may happen How about rephrase to `When talking to the startup phase of a broker, it is possible to receive an empty metadata set, which we should retry later.` -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org