Introduce new concept of "slot portion for proposing" (#8280)
* Introduce new concept of "slot portion for proposing" Currently when building a block we actually give the proposer all of the time in the slot, while this is wrong. The slot is actually split in at least two phases proposing and propagation or in the polkadot case into three phases validating pov's, proposing and propagation. As we don't want to bring that much polkadot concepts into Substrate, we only support splitting the slot into proposing and propagation. The portion can now be passed as parameter to AuRa and BABE to configure this value. However, this slot portion for propagation doesn't mean that the proposer can not go over this limit. When we miss slots we still apply the lenience factor to increase the proposing time, so that we have enough time to build a heavy block. Besides all what was said above, this is especially required for parachains. Parachains have a much more constraint proposing window. Currently the slot duration is at minimum 12 seconds, but we only have around 500ms for proposing. So, this slot portion for proposing is really required to make it working without hacks. * Offgit feedback * Cast cast cast
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