turn exit calls into exceptions

[braingram]

Closes #1544

This PR converts the exit(0) calls in the mosaic pipeline to exceptions.

Regtests all pass: https://github.com/spacetelescope/RegressionTests/actions/runs/12036561824

Tasks

• request a review from someone specific, to avoid making the maintainers review every PR
• add a build milestone, i.e. 24Q4_B15 (use the latest build if not sure)
• Does this PR change user-facing code / API? (if not, label with no-changelog-entry-needed)
  • write news fragment(s) in changes/: echo "changed something" > changes/<PR#>.<changetype>.rst (see below for change types)
  • update or add relevant tests
  • update relevant docstrings and / or docs/ page
  • start a regression test and include a link to the running job (click here for instructions)
    • Do truth files need to be updated ("okified")?
      • after the reviewer has approved these changes, run okify_regtests to update the truth files
• if a JIRA ticket exists, make sure it is resolved properly

news fragment change types...

• changes/<PR#>.general.rst: infrastructure or miscellaneous change
• changes/<PR#>.docs.rst
• changes/<PR#>.stpipe.rst
• changes/<PR#>.associations.rst
• changes/<PR#>.scripts.rst
• changes/<PR#>.mosaic_pipeline.rst
• changes/<PR#>.patch_match.rst

steps

• changes/<PR#>.dq_init.rst
• changes/<PR#>.saturation.rst
• changes/<PR#>.refpix.rst
• changes/<PR#>.linearity.rst
• changes/<PR#>.dark_current.rst
• changes/<PR#>.jump_detection.rst
• changes/<PR#>.ramp_fitting.rst
• changes/<PR#>.assign_wcs.rst
• changes/<PR#>.flatfield.rst
• changes/<PR#>.photom.rst
• changes/<PR#>.flux.rst
• changes/<PR#>.source_detection.rst
• changes/<PR#>.tweakreg.rst
• changes/<PR#>.skymatch.rst
• changes/<PR#>.outlier_detection.rst
• changes/<PR#>.resample.rst
• changes/<PR#>.source_catalog.rst

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 0% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 76.81%. Comparing base (fa457d9) to head (c2fa20f).
Report is 3 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
romancal/pipeline/mosaic_pipeline.py	0.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##             main    #1545      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   76.77%   76.81%   +0.03%     
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  Files         118      118              
  Lines        7747     7743       -4     
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  Hits         5948     5948              
+ Misses       1799     1795       -4     

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[mairanteodoro]

Thanks for the fix, @braingram! Looks good to me!