HIP for changing consensus group deselection dynamics

[PaulVMo]

This HIP introduces a change to the consensus election dynamics on the Helium L1 blockchain to provide additional tunability for the deselection scoring of current consensus group members. The aim is to more quickly and reliable eject poor performers from the group.

Code for this change has already been merged as blockchain-core PR 1468 helium/blockchain-core#1468

[vincenzospaghetti]

Hi @PaulVMo, does this need to be a HIP if it's already deployed? Please correct me if I have that wrong.

[abhay]

It's deployed (or in the process. see image below. left two bars are the viable versions) but behind a chain variable that's bound to the 1.15.x release. I believe it's a fair thing to have a HIP and a quick vote on (at least by validator operators) since it changes election dynamics.

[vincenzospaghetti]

Okay. I likely see others having the same question I just asked. Can we put that in the context of this HIP? I added this as two comments to be added to the Summary portion. Otherwise looks great and, we'll get it out!

[PaulVMo]

@vincenzospaghetti great questions and feedback. I updated the summary to address the points you brought up. Please let me know if you have any more questions.

[abhay]

I’d be supportive of this coming to a full discussion (for a few days), some education from the author and the foundation, and a relatively quick vote. Ideally we could activate this variable around Nov 1.

[vincenzospaghetti]

All of that sounds good @abhay. I see this definitely needing some education from you and @PaulVMo. How can the Foundation help education? If you have a proposal of that we can add in the comments here that would be ideal.

Let's go ahead and open a channel.