To send notifications, sendalerts calls Flip.send_alerts().
I updated Flip.send_alerts() to be a generator, and to yield
a (channel, error, send_time_in_seconds) triple per sent
notification.
The initial implementation was just calling signal-cli directly
using `subprocess.run`.
Going with DBus makes it easier to shield signal-cli from the
rest of the system. It also makes sure the signal-cli daemon is
running in the background and receiving messages. This is important
when a recipient does the "Reset secure connection" from the app. We
must receive their new keys, otherwise our future messages will
appear as "bad encrypted message" for them.
With the previous 10 minutes / minute limit we were still hitting
Telegram API rate limit (the 429, "Too Many Requests" response)
from time to time.
Therefore, tighten the limit a bit on our side.
Normally, when a webhook call fails (timeout, connection
error, non-2xx response), the HTTP request is retried up to two
times (so up to 3 times total). This is useful when sending
actual notifications, in case the webhook target has a temporary
glitch.
When interactively testing a webhook integration
("Send Test Notification" in the
"Integrations" page), we would prefer to see any errors ASAP
on the screen instead of retrying and so possibly swallowing them.
One specific use case is webhook targets that take long time to
generate a response. "Send Test Notification" is synchronous,
meaning that the user could be stuck for
5 x 3 = 15 seconds waiting for the test HTTP request to time out
three times.