Run on_tick before picking the head for proposal #2897
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A follow up to #2878
It seems like running
on_tick
is intended by the original PR, otherwise, attestations of a previous slot couldn't be applied.Currently,
on_tick
resets proposer boost in addition to advancing the current slot and may have some other logic in the future. Implicit reset of proposer boost became a source of confusion here #2895 (comment). Thus, I think it's important to haveon_tick
explicitly mentioned in the validator's spec.cc @potuz @michaelsproul