fix(gitlab): reduce attempts

[viceice]

Changes

reduce attempts because 35 attempts would cause a delay of ~87 minutes. 8 attempts cause a delay of 5 min

Context

regression of

• feat(gitlab): increase merge request status check timeout to 300 sec #25953

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[fullstackcreatives]

8 tries would result in 18000 ms so 18 seconds. The increase is not exponential but adds additional 500 ms to each step.

8 tries: 500 + 1000 + 1500 + 2000 + 2500 + 3000 + 3500 + 4000 = 18000

This means: 35 tries is appr. 5 min.

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[fullstackcreatives]

PLEASE reconsider of reverting this: This is not 5 min timeout but 18 sec. This will cause most of our renovate runs fail to enable automerge.

[viceice]

PLEASE reconsider of reverting this: This is not 5 min timeout but 18 sec. This will cause most of our renovate runs fail to enable automerge.

I'll raise the backoff time instead otherwise renovate is hammering the API too much.

I'll do 500*attempt*attempt, so we've a quadratic wait time, which makes much more sense.