title: Python JIRA - Timeouts?
body: <p>I'm attempting to use the Python JIRA module (<a href="http://jira.readthedocs.io/en/master/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://jira.readthedocs.io/en/master/index.html</a>) within a Flask app and I'm struggling to raise errors on long loads/retries that can occur if the JIRA server is unavailable. I've tried both the timeout and max_retries settings noted in the API docs to no avail. </p>
  
  <p>Has anyone had success raising an error if JIRA happens to be unavailable when a method relying on it is called? </p>