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Add simple collator election mechanism (#1340)



Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/106

Port of cumulus PR https://github.com/paritytech/cumulus/pull/2960

This PR adds the ability to bid for collator slots even after the max
number of collators have already registered. This eliminates the first
come, first served mechanism that was in place before.

Key changes:
- added `update_bond` extrinsic to allow registered candidates to adjust
their bonds in order to dynamically control their bids
- added `take_candidate_slot` extrinsic to try to replace an already
existing candidate by bidding more than them
- candidates are now kept in a sorted list in the pallet storage, where
the top `DesiredCandidates` out of `MaxCandidates` candidates in the
list will be selected by the session pallet as collators
- if the candidacy bond is increased through a `set_candidacy_bond`
call, candidates which don't meet the new bond requirements are kicked


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corresponding Cumulus PR (optional)

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