Skipped jobs names are not evaluated, resulting in gibberish

[MaxymVlasov]

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We have a reusable workflow which able to calculate names on the fly:

jobs:
  pre-setup:
    ...
  build:
    name: 📦 ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.git-tag }}
    ...
  tests:
    name: 🧪 Tests${{ '' }} # nest jobs under the same sidebar category

When we skip them by certain condition, it ends in this:

Can you please make GH workflows able to evaluate job names (when it is possible) before skip them?

Originally from https://github.com/antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform/pull/821/files#r1968325672

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[webknjaz]

@hugovk do you remember the CPython discussions about this? I wanted to link it but can't find that PR or issue...

UPD: here it is python/cpython#121831 (comment). @ambv was the first one to complain, I think. But there were other mentions.

[webknjaz]

I think that another bit of the problem is having to add a no-op like ${{ '' }} to force GHA group jobs in matrices. That's the underlying issue leading to people having to rely on this hack. If there's no interpolation in the job name (which is what most people want), it'd generate multiple single-job groups in the UI: python/cpython#121831 (comment).