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Asynchronous C implementation of the Raft consensus protocol
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Server should start new elections if it was voter in previous configuration #150

Open freeekanayaka opened 7 months ago

freeekanayaka commented 7 months ago

During a membership change, a leader being removed should still start elections, see section 4.2.2:

Second, a server that is not part of its own latest configuration should still start new elections, as it might still be needed until the Cnew entry is committed (as in Figure 4.6). It does not count its own vote in elections unless it is part of its latest configuration