docs: correct pathological default values

[toddbaert]

• retry grace period should be larger than the retry backoff max ms, or we get spurious errors within the grace period

When corrected, the ERRORs will go away, and STALE reconnect will take 5s - we could make it quicker with a incremental backoff, but that’s a bigger change. This proposal just changes some defaults to remove the spurious ERROR transitions.

Fixes: #2027

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[toddbaert]

This hasn't changed, I'm just adding clarity.

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Walkthrough

The provider specification now documents flat application-level stream reconnection backoff. It changes the default maximum retry backoff to 5000 ms and the retry grace period to 10 seconds.

Changes

Provider retry documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stream retry specification docs/reference/specifications/providers.md	The documentation specifies flat application-level backoff alongside automatic gRPC retry behavior. It changes retryBackoffMaxMs from 12000 to 5000 and retryGracePeriod from 5 to 10 seconds.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 80658

This PR documents retry defaults and recovery behavior that the current implementation does not follow, which could mislead integrators and cause incorrect expectations during provider outages. Merge should wait for the specification and implementation to be aligned or for the discrepancy to be explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: aepfli, bacherfl, james-milligan, lukas-reining

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The documentation reflects the proposed defaults, but the linked issue also requires end-to-end coverage that this pull request does not provide.	Add or link the required end-to-end test updates that verify no ERROR event occurs during the normal ready-to-stale-to-ready recovery flow.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to provider documentation and directly support the linked issue objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the default value changes and their purpose: preventing spurious ERROR transitions during stream reconnection.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the documentation change that corrects pathological default values.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/reference/specifications/providers.md`:
- Line 45: Align the stream reconnection implementation and specification by
updating connectWithRetry to use the configured flat retryBackoffMaxMs policy,
wiring the documented retry options through SourceConfig, and revising the
specification if the implementation remains authoritative. Add a lifecycle test
covering PROVIDER_READY → PROVIDER_STALE → PROVIDER_READY that verifies
PROVIDER_ERROR is not emitted prematurely.

Apply the same fix in `@docs/reference/specifications/providers.md` around lines
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[JamieSinn]

Is this something we can try to auto update (re -defaults?)

[toddbaert]

Is this something we can try to auto update (re -defaults?)

What do you mean by that?

[JamieSinn]

Is this something we can try to auto update (re -defaults?)

What do you mean by that?

I use a generator for the table for the DVC SDK Proxy - https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/kelseyhightower/envconfig?utm_source=godoc