This never got merged from the apache/incubator-spark repo (which is now deleted) but there had been several rounds of code review on this PR there.

I think this is ready for merging.

Author: Andrew Ash <andrew@andrewash.com>

This patch had conflicts when merged, resolved by
Committer: Reynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>

Closes #369 from ash211/sortby and squashes the following commits:

d09147a [Andrew Ash] Fix Ordering import
43d0a53 [Andrew Ash] Fix missing .collect()
29a54ed [Andrew Ash] Re-enable test by converting to a closure
5a95348 [Andrew Ash] Add license for RDDSuiteUtils
64ed6e3 [Andrew Ash] Remove leaked diff
d4de69a [Andrew Ash] Remove scar tissue
63638b5 [Andrew Ash] Add Python version of .sortBy()
45e0fde [Andrew Ash] Add Java version of .sortBy()
adf84c5 [Andrew Ash] Re-indent to keep line lengths under 100 chars
9d9b9d8 [Andrew Ash] Use parentheses on .collect() calls
0457b69 [Andrew Ash] Ignore failing test
99f0baf [Andrew Ash] Merge branch 'master' into sortby
222ae97 [Andrew Ash] Try moving Ordering objects out to a different class
3fd0dd3 [Andrew Ash] Add (failing) test for sortByKey with explicit Ordering
b8b5bbc [Andrew Ash] Align remove extra spaces that were used to align ='s in test code
8c53298 [Andrew Ash] Actually use ascending and numPartitions parameters
381eef2 [Andrew Ash] Correct silly typo
7db3e84 [Andrew Ash] Support ascending and numPartitions params in sortBy()
0f685fd [Andrew Ash] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into sortby
ca4490d [Andrew Ash] Add .sortBy(f) method on RDD