NonlinearLeastSquaresProblem returns stalled

[hexaeder]

Describe the bug 🐞

If it does not find a solution, a NonlinearLeastSquars problem returns Stalled, thus unsuccessful.

Expected behavior

Return successful retcode. On slack Oscar suggested to maybe create a new stalled_success retcode for that case.

Minimal Reproducible Example 👇

using NonlinearSolve
f(u,p) = [1.0]
nlf = NonlinearFunction(f; resid_prototype=zeros(1))
prob = NonlinearLeastSquaresProblem(nlf, [1.0])
sol = solve(prob)

sol.retcode == ReturnCode.Stalled
SciMLBase.successful_retcode(sol.retcode) == false

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Output of using Pkg; Pkg.status()

(jl_46LzEB) pkg> st
Status `/tmp/jl_46LzEB/Project.toml`
  [8913a72c] NonlinearSolve v3.14.0

• Output of using Pkg; Pkg.status(; mode = PKGMODE_MANIFEST)

(jl_46LzEB) pkg> st -m
Status `/tmp/jl_46LzEB/Manifest.toml`
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[avik-pal]

We can take the return code from the termination condition and convert it to success in this case

[hexaeder]

I have no idea if that would be a lot of hassle, but I quite like @oscardssmith's suggestion to introduce stalled_success. For over-constraint initialization problems, it is nice to know whether the solver stalled or actually found a root directly from the retcode.