pragmatismatic: run flaky tests three times to see if we can get more "green" CI runs this way ...

thanks to @the-compiler also modernize plugin usage

python/tox.ini

@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ passenv =
     DCC_PY_LIVECONFIG
 deps = 
     pytest
-    pytest-faulthandler
+    pytest-rerunfailures
+    pytest-timeout
+    pytest-xdist
+    auditwheel
     pdbpp
     requests
 
@@ -51,11 +54,12 @@ commands =
 
 
 [pytest]
-addopts = -v -rs
+addopts = -v -rs --reruns 3 --reruns-delay 2
 python_files = tests/test_*.py 
 norecursedirs = .tox 
 xfail_strict=true
-timeout = 60
+timeout = 60 
+timeout_method = thread
 
 [flake8]
 max-line-length = 120