Allow global retry

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Problem to solve

Allow users to specify a global retry policy while allowing jobs to override or augment it.

retry:
  max: 2
  when:
    - runner_system_failure
    - stuck_or_timeout_failure

Intended users

Unknown

Further details

This simplifies job descriptions as currently you need to define a template job just with a retry declaration and then include it everywhere else.

A workaround would be:

.retry:
  max: 2
  when:
    - runner_system_failure
    - stuck_or_timeout_failure

job:
  extends: .retry
  ...