Gracefully handle timeouts when counting issues
What does this MR do and why?
This sets a shorter timeout for the group issue counts in the sidebar and also handles failures gracefully so that the rest of the page continues to load in case it times out.
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Related to #498901
Edited by Heinrich Lee Yu