KIP-572 — Improve timeouts and retries in Kafka Streams

Accepted Kafka 2.8 Streams

Introduces a dedicated `task.timeout.ms` configuration for Kafka Streams that causes a task to fail (rather than block indefinitely) when a single operation exceeds the timeout, decoupling Streams-level timeout handling from the embedded client retry behavior. Previously Streams relied entirely on internal Kafka client retries, which blocked the entire `StreamThread` for all tasks when one client retried, and gave users no control over the overall operation timeout.

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