Add hardcoded qualifier

[navarone-feekery]

Add hard-coded qualifier beta1 so nightly builds have a qualifier. This will be removed when we release 9.0.

[artem-shelkovnikov]

We run nightlies for recent branches, would that also affect them?

[navarone-feekery]

@artem-shelkovnikov the nightlies should be unaffected because we produce both snapshots and staging DRAs, according to @seanstory:

Nightlies are snapshots AND staging DRAs.
Yes, that change would work. I was thinking putting it in the pipeline.yml, but this is totally fine.
Snapshots are exempt from qualifiers.
Relevant logic block:

connectors/.buildkite/publish/dra/init_dra_publishing.sh

Lines 54 to 63 in d4c86f4

	if [[ "${BUILDKITE_BRANCH:-}" =~ (main|8\.x|[0-9]\.[0-9x]*$) ]]; then
	export PUBLISH_SNAPSHOT="true"
	fi
	if [[ "${BUILDKITE_BRANCH:-}" =~ ([0-9]\.[0-9x]*$) ]]; then
	export PUBLISH_STAGING="true"
	fi
	if [ -n "${VERSION_QUALIFIER:-}" ]; then
	# this is a special case where we will release a pre-release artifact, regardless of branch
	export PUBLISH_STAGING="true"
	fi

init_dra_publishing.sh
So after we cut a 9.0 branch, the nightlies will start producing staging and snapshot builds for 9.0.0. Right now, they're only snapshot, because main isn't on the staging branch pattern, and is only included if you specify a qualifier. (edited)

[navarone-feekery]

We run nightlies for recent branches, would that also affect them?

Or do you mean branches that aren't main?
If we don't backport it should be fine, right?

[seanstory]

correct, as long as we dont' backport, it's fine

[github-actions]

💔 Failed to create backport PR(s)

The backport operation could not be completed due to the following error:
There are no branches to backport to. Aborting.

The backport PRs will be merged automatically after passing CI.

To backport manually run:
backport --pr 3162 --autoMerge --autoMergeMethod squash