Recommendation for working around required fields in drafts?

[ChrisHardie]

We're looking at using drafts to allow someone to create a model without filling in all of the usually required fields when the needed information is not yet available, but when creating a draft is still helpful.

Do you have any recommendations or experience with how to do that? I think it requires more than just checking the status of the model as draft/published in a ->required() callback, as the transition from draft to published would have to be handled too.

Thanks for any guidance you can offer!