WT-10153 explored various approaches to disable Evergreen builders for non-develop or release branches, for both commit builds and periodic builds.
One of the approaches is to leverage the config file include feature, to have one config file to host all common builders for both develop and release branches, and another config file to host the extra set of builders that we'd like to run only on the develop branch. Then the Evergreen projects testing against the release branches can be configured with the common config file, and that of develop branch configured with a different config file (compared to release branches) that "includes" contents from both the common and the extra config files.