Improve beacon proposer selection logic #1413
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Substantive changes:
Advantages of the new proposer logic:
SLOTS_PER_EPOCHS
, an unintended design flaw). Improved liveness with low validator count may be useful for testing, fuzzing, and private consortium beacon chains.get_committee_count
,get_start_shard
andget_crosslink_committee
. Reduceget_beacon_proposer_index
line count by 20% (from 15 lines to 12 lines).compute_proposer_index
can be reused in phase 1 (see Revamp 1_shard-data-chains.md #1383).