feat: support retriable stall with controllable delay

[raj-prince]

Fixes #667

• Tests pass
• Appropriate changes to README are included in PR

[conventional-commit-lint-gcf]

🤖 I detect that the PR title and the commit message differ and there's only one commit. To use the PR title for the commit history, you can use Github's automerge feature with squashing, or use automerge label. Good luck human!

-- conventional-commit-lint bot
https://conventionalcommits.org/

[frankyn]

LGTM

[codecov]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 98.70%. Comparing base (61bce3c) to head (e53b8f4).
Report is 32 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##             main     #666      +/-   ##
==========================================
+ Coverage   98.69%   98.70%   +0.01%     
==========================================
  Files          50       50              
  Lines        8492     8527      +35     
==========================================
+ Hits         8381     8417      +36     
+ Misses        111      110       -1     

Flag	Coverage Δ
unittests	98.70% <100.00%> (+0.01%)	⬆️

Flags with carried forward coverage won't be shown. Click here to find out more.

☔ View full report in Codecov by Sentry.
📢 Have feedback on the report? Share it here.