// golang's map orders keys. This doesn't affect correctness as long as quorum
// value is greater than or equal to simple majority, since none of the equally
// maximal values would occur quorum or more number of times.
func reduceErrs(errs []error, ignoredErrs []error) (maxCount int, maxErr error) {
	errorCounts := make(map[error]int)
	for _, err := range errs {

	// occurrences of elements.
	for etag, count := range etagOccurrenceMap {
		if count < maxima {
			continue
		}

		// We are at or above maxima
		if count > maxima {
			maxima = count
			latest = etag
		}
	}

	// Return the collected common max time, with maxima
	return latest, maxima
}

// commonTime returns a maximally occurring time from a list of time.