Steps to update the current experimental release with no major upgrades (i.e. install it in the same Spack instance as before - respective CI/CD env variable is ${site}_INSTALLATION_ROOT_{env})
1) Back up the Lab's experimental kernel configuration in both CSCS and JSC prod
2) Merge the master branch of the ebrains-spack-builds repo to the experimental_rel branch.
Make sure that the master branch has uncommented in the spack.yaml file only those packages that have been built successfully.
3) Start the scheduled pipeline with description "deploy experimental release in the dev CSCS cluster"
4) Check if the pipeline executed successfully
5) On Friday morning (not every Friday, could be when we have important or numerous changes) run the scheduled pipeline with description "deploy experimental release in prod environments".
6) Only one job will continue (due to credentials mismatch in the gitlab runner)
7) Check the result of the job. If it is successful retry the other job that failed previously. If it is not, restore the experimental kernel's configuration from step #1 in its original location.