redo/tweak transfer leader in libraft (#61)
this started off as a small tweak and grew a bit 1) new callback for transfer leader result, along with its own enum of states 2) change/remove raft_reset_transfer_leader() calls only call in places where there's a new leader or timeout (i.e. failed to transfer within period). so, we only reset in 3 places 1) recv_appendentries 2) raft_periodic (timeout) 3) raft_become_leader 2a) raft_become_leader also got refactored a little to only issue the normal cb.notify_state_event() callback after it has set its state to be leader (as before, it could fail after the callback was issued) 2b) in raft_periodic the raft_reset_transfer_leader() is pulled out the "if LEADER" block, as will lose leader when a vote is issued to it, we still want it to timeout if leadership isn't gained 3) raft_reset_transfer_leader() does the logic for determining success/failure now, but becaue timeout is its own result which can't be determined by just looking at leader/d...
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