Enable specifying pre-filled workflow variables as mandatory to trigger manual jobs
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Some CI workflows require user input to be meaningfully executed. There should be an option to specify pre-filled variables as being mandatory, without which the workflow should not start. For example, a release/deployment workflow with custom tagging would require specifying that custom tag manually.
If that variable is used towards the end of a workflow, but the user missed specifying a value, then the workflow will fail after having already performed a significant amount of work. This can be avoided by making it mandatory to specify a value for the variable.
Assigning a default value to the variable is not a suitable solution because we may not want to run the workflow for the default value.