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DEVPROD-13995: document project variable limitations #8612

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- Checking **admin only** ensures that the variable can only be used
by admins and mainline commits.

Project variables have some limitations:

* Project variable names can consist of alphanumeric characters, dashes (`-`),
underscores (`_`), and periods (`.`). Other special characters are not
allowed.
* Project variable names cannot contain the suffix `.gz`.
* Project variable names must be unique.
* Project variable names and values cannot be an empty string.
* A project variable's value cannot exceed 8 KB in length. If you need to store
a value longer than 8 KB, you can store it in multiple variables and
concatenate them together in a script when your task runs.

### Aliases

Aliases can be used for patch testing, merge queue testing, GitHub PRs,
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