Merge pull request #1376 from secondlife/project/channel_by_branch

Project/channel by branch

.github/workflows/build.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on:
   pull_request:
   push:
     branches: ["main", "release/*", "project/*"]
-    tags: ["Second_Life_*"]
+    tags: ["Second_Life*"]
 
 jobs:
   build:
@@ -176,16 +176,22 @@ jobs:
           # seen before, so numerous tests don't know about it.
           [[ "$arch" == "MINGW6" ]] && arch=CYGWIN
           export AUTOBUILD="$(which autobuild)"
-          # Build with a tag like "Second_Life_Project_Shiny#abcdef0" to get a
-          # viewer channel "Second Life Project Shiny" (ignoring "#hash",
-          # needed to disambiguate tags).
-          if [[ "$GITHUB_REF_TYPE" == "tag" && "${GITHUB_REF_NAME:0:12}" == "Second_Life_" ]]
-          then viewer_channel="${GITHUB_REF_NAME%#*}"
-               export viewer_channel="${viewer_channel//_/ }"
-          else export viewer_channel="Second Life Test"
+
+          # determine the viewer channel from the branch name
+          branch=$AUTOBUILD_VCS_BRANCH
+          IFS='/' read -ra ba <<< $branch
+          prefix=${ba[0]}
+          if [ "$prefix" == "project" ]; then
+              IFS='_' read -ra prj <<< "${ba[1]}"
+              # uppercase first letter of each word
+              export viewer_channel="Second Life Project ${prj[*]^}"
+          elif  [[ "$prefix" == "release" || "$prefix" == "main" ]];
+          then
+              export viewer_channel="Second Life Release"
+          else
+              export viewer_channel="Second Life Test"
           fi
           echo "viewer_channel=$viewer_channel" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
           # On windows we need to point the build to the correct python
           # as neither CMake's FindPython nor our custom Python.cmake module
           # will resolve the correct interpreter location.
@@ -354,7 +360,8 @@ jobs:
   release:
     needs: [build, sign-and-package-windows, sign-and-package-mac]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: github.ref_type == 'tag' && startsWith(github.ref_name, 'Second_Life_')
+      # Build with a tag like "Second_Life#abcdef0" to generate a release page (used for builds we are planning to deploy).
+    if: github.ref_type == 'tag' && startsWith(github.ref_name, 'Second_Life')
     steps:
       - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with: