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- Reduce Gossip Flakes
- time.sleep in gossip tests
- remove data races
This is less a design document and more a "design discovery". We don't know why a lot of this is the way it is. There don't seem to be any contemporaneous records from three years ago when most of it was written.
Gossip Flakes
The general concept of gossip is is that nodes pass data around. It is not necessarily 100% foolproof to get messages through.
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