Merge pull request #8148 from ykakarap/release-1.5-timeline

📖 Preliminary release dates for v1.5

Author: k8s-ci-robot

docs/release/release-cycle.md

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 The release cycle is the time between when we start working on a release on the `main` branch until the `.0` release (e.g. `v1.3.0`) is released.
 
-**Note**: For the `v1.3` and `v1.4` releases we assume each release cycle will last approximately 4 months (~ 17 weeks).
-The release cycle duration will be revisited after the `v1.4.0` release.
+**Note**: For the `v1.3` and `v1.4` releases we assume each release cycle will last approximately 4 months (~ 17 weeks).  
+The release cycle will follow a 4 month cadence for 2023. The release cycle duration will be revisited in 2024.
 
 A release cycle can be split up into the following phases:
 

docs/release/releases/release-1.5.md

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+# Cluster API v1.5
+
+## Timeline
+
+The following table shows the preliminary dates for the `v1.5` release cycle.
+
+| **What**                                             | **Who**      | **When**                   | **Week** |
+|------------------------------------------------------|--------------|----------------------------|----------|
+| Start of Release Cycle                               | Release Lead | Monday 3rd April 2023      | week 1   |
+| Schedule finalized                                   | Release Lead | Friday 7th April 2023      | week 1   |
+| Team finalized                                       | Release Lead | Friday 7th April 2023      | week 1   |
+| *v1.3.x & v1.4.x released*                           | Release Lead | Tuesday 2nd May 2023       | week 5   |
+| *v1.3.x & v1.4.x released*                           | Release Lead | Tuesday 30th May 2023      | week 9   |
+| v1.5.0-beta.0 released                               | Release Lead | Tuesday 27th June 2023     | week 13  |
+| *v1.3.x & v1.4.x released*                           | Release Lead | Tuesday 27th June 2023     | week 13  |
+| v1.5.0-beta.1 released                               | Release Lead | Tuesday 4th July 2023      | week 14  |
+| release-1.5 branch created (**Begin [Code Freeze]**) | Release Lead | Tuesday 11th July 2023     | week 15  |
+| v1.5.0-rc.0 released                                 | Release Lead | Tuesday 11th July 2023     | week 15  |
+| release-1.5 jobs created                             | CI Manager   | Tuesday 11th July 2023     | week 15  |
+| v1.5.0-rc.1 released                                 | Release Lead | Tuesday 18th July 2023     | week 16  |
+| **v1.5.0 released**                                  | Release Lead | Tuesday 25th July 2023     | week 17  |
+| *v1.3.x & v1.4.x released*                           | Release Lead | Tuesday 25th July 2023     | week 17  |
+| Organize release retrospective                       | Release Lead | TBC                        | week 17  |
+
+After the `.0` release monthly patch release will be created.
+
+## Release team
+
+TODO: Add the release team details after a team is formed.