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+# Evergreen configuration
+
+This document describes the continuous integration (CI) configuration for MongoDB. 
+
+
+## Projects
+
+There are a number of Evergreen projects supporting MongoDB's CI. For more information on
+Evergreen-specific terminology used in this document, please refer to the 
+[Project Configuration](https://github.com/evergreen-ci/evergreen/wiki/Project-Configuration-Files)
+section of the Evergreen wiki.
+
+### `mongodb-mongo-master`
+The main project for testing MongoDB's dev environments with a number build variants,
+each one corresponding to a particular compile or testing environment to support development.
+Each build variant runs a set of tasks; each task ususally runs one or more tests.
+
+### `mongodb-mongo-master-nightly
+Tracks the same branch as `mongodb-mongo-master`, each build variant corresponds to a
+(version, OS, architecure) triplet for a supported MongoDB nightly release.
+
+### `sys_perf`
+The system performance project.
+
+### `microbenchmarks`
+Performance unittests, used mainly for validating areas related to the Query system.
+
+
+## Project configurations
+
+The above Evergreen projects are defined in the following files:
+
+* `etc/evergreen_yml_components/**.yml`. YAML files containing definitions for tasks, functions, buildvariants, etc. 
+They are copied from the existing evergreen.yml file.
+
+* `etc/evergreen.yml`. Imports components from above and serves as the project config for mongodb-mongo-master, 
+containing all build variants for development, including all feature-specific, patch build required, and suggested
+variants.
+
+* `etc/evergreen_nightly.yml`. The project configuration for mongodb-mongo-master-nightly, containing only build 
+variants for public nightly builds, imports similar components as evergreen.yml to ensure consistency.
+
+* `etc/sys_perf.yml`. Configuration file for the system performance project.
+
+* `etc/perf.yml`. Configuration for the microbenchmark project.
+
+
+## Release Branching Process
+Only the `mongodb-mongo-master-nightly` project will be branched with required and other
+necessary variants (e.g. sanitizers) added back in. Most variants in `mongodb-mongo-master`
+would be dropped by default but can be re-introduced to the release branches manually on an
+as-needed basis. For Rapid releases, all but the variants relevant to Atlas in
+`mongodb-mongo-master-nightly` may be dropped as well.