UI Rename Experimental to Branch builds
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Authored by Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) on Aug 19 2021, 5:59 PM.

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James Monteath (jmonteath)

Summary

All the builds in buildbot are experimental. Better to name
them in a more friendly way to the end users.

This only changes the site appearance. The internal names and files are still using "experimental". Later someone can patch it further to get everything to use "branch" instead of "experimental":

buildbot
file storage
buildbot www variable/function names
redirect to make old urls using "experimental" to work with "branch"

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Repository: rBBW Blender Buildbot WWW

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Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) requested review of this revision.Aug 19 2021, 5:59 PM

Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) created this revision.

Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) mentioned this in D12272: Fix T90231: Create download page for each patch/branch.Aug 19 2021, 6:03 PM

I will handle the backward compatibility in the code itself (string replace in index.php). Without requiring apache config changes.

I updated the patch so changes only the UI. Later someone can patch it further to get everything to use "branch" instead of "experimental":

buildbot
file storage
buildbot www variable/function names
redirect to make old urls using "experimental" to work with "branch"

Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) added a reviewer: James Monteath (jmonteath).Aug 20 2021, 2:45 PM

UI changes should not affect anything with the pipeline automation.

However, switch from experimental to another name should be avoided as it will require changes to the build pipeline and buildbot configuration. Not something I able support at this time.

In D12271#319111, @James Monteath (jmonteath) wrote:

UI changes should not affect anything with the pipeline automation.

However, switch from experimental to another name should be avoided as it will require changes to the build pipeline and buildbot configuration. Not something I able support at this time.

Hi, the patch is only for the UI changes, so we are good. Later it will be nice to change it more completely and consistently, but it is a different matter.

Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) mentioned this in rBBWa67020e0c1f9: UI Rename Experimental to Branch builds.Aug 24 2021, 1:23 PM

Pushed to UATEST
https://builder-uatest.blender.org/download/daily/

I added few builds so they can be tested for the specific branch or patch.

Deployed into production.