Support multiversion testing on latest branch against evergreen patches on release branch

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Major - P3
    • 5.2.0
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: Testing Infrastructure
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    • STM 2021-11-01
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      To enable multiversion testing against evergreen patches: 

      • Add parameters for `last_lts_evg_version` and `last_continuous_evg_version` to evergreen.yml on latest version (master), so users can create latest version patches and test it against release version evergreen patches with backports: --param last_lts_evg_version={evg_patch_version_id} or --param last_continuous_evg_version={evg_patch_version_id}
      • Update multiversion setup in evergreen to accommodate parameters above and to download artifacts, replacing --installLastLTS.
      • Copy the backports file to the top-level repo and update generate_multiversion_exclude_tags.py: old backports_required_for_multiversion_tests.yml file should be taken from artefacts downloaded by setup-multiversion, we can fallback to getting the file from the repo, if artefacts are absent, to preserve the current behaviour

      AC:

      • send email to database contributors letting them know this is now available

            Assignee:
            Robert Guo (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            Mikhail Shchatko
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