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Andrei Sandu authored
Changes the way we perform the random selection of backed candidates when there isn't enough room for all of them. Instead of picking individual backed candidates `apply_weight` now operates on chains of candidates. This is fully backwards compatible and relies on the node side (provisioner/prospective parachains) doing the heavy lifting and providing the candidates in the order they form a chain. The same approach can be implemented for bitfields random selection once https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3479 is merged. The approach taken in this PR aims for reduced additional complexity at the cost of being less fair wrt how many backed candidates from each chain are picked. It favors elastic scaling parachains vs parachains not using elastic scaling, but from my perspective it should be fine as this should happen under exceptional circumstances like dispute storms. Note: to make things more fair we can consider specializing `random_sel` such that it will try to pick candidates one by one in the order provided by the provisioner such that non elastic scaling parachains have the same chance of getting a candidate backed. --------- Signed-off-by: Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>