Add Kubernetes 1.24 release outline

releases/release-1.24/OWNERS

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+# See the OWNERS docs at https://go.k8s.io/owners
+
+approvers:
+  - jrsapi                # Emeritus Adviser
+  - JamesLaverack         # Release Team Lead
+  - jlbutler              # Release Team Lead Shadow
+  - salaxander            # Release Team Lead Shadow
+  - cici37                # Release Team Lead Shadow
+  - mkorbi                # Release Team Lead Shadow
+
+reviewers:
+  - gracenng              # Enhancements
+  - leonardpahlke         # CI Signal
+  - jyotimahapatra        # Bug Triage
+  - nate-double-u         # Docs
+  - AuraSinis             # Release Notes
+  - mickeyboxell          # Communications

releases/release-1.24/README.md

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+---
+title: "Kubernetes 1.24 Release Information"
+weight: 98
+slug: "release"
+aliases: [ "/release" ]
+description: |
+  Information regarding the current release cycle including important dates,
+  Release Team contact information, tracking spreadsheets and more!
+---
+
+# Kubernetes 1.24
+
+#### Links
+
+* [This document](https://git.k8s.io/sig-release/releases/release-1.24/README.md)
+* [Release Team](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.24/release-team.md)
+* [Meeting Minutes](http://bit.ly/k8s124-releasemtg) (join [release-team@] to receive meeting invites)
+* [v1.24 Release Calendar][k8s124-calendar]
+* Contact: [#sig-release] on slack, [release-team@] on e-mail
+* [Internal Contact Info] (accessible only to members of [release-team@])
+
+#### Tracking docs
+
+* [Enhancements Tracking Sheet](https://bit.ly/k8s124-enhancements)
+* [Feature blog Tracking Sheet](http://bit.ly/k8s124-feature-blog)
+* [Bug Triage Tracking Sheet](https://bit.ly/124-bug-triage-tracking)
+* [CI Signal Project Board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/11)
+* [CI Signal Tracking Log](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ns94ZAH4PIvzhpwU1SGPyl9ek_p4-_Be/)
+* [Retrospective Document][Retrospective Document]
+* [kubernetes/sig-release v1.24 milestone](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/milestone/56)
+
+#### Guides
+
+* [Targeting Issues and PRs to This Milestone](https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-release/release.md)
+* [Triaging and Escalating Test Failures](https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-testing/testing.md#troubleshooting-a-failure)
+
+## TL;DR
+
+The 1.24 release cycle is proposed as follows:
+
+- **Monday 10th January 2022**: Week 1 - Release cycle begins
+- **TBC**: Week 2 - [Production Readiness Soft Freeze](https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-architecture/c/a6_y81N49aQ)
+- **TBC**: Week 3 - [Enhancements Freeze](../release_phases.md#enhancements-freeze)
+- **TBC**: Week 11 - [Release Retrospective][Retrospective Document] part 1
+- **TBC**: Week 13 - [Code Freeze](../release_phases.md#code-freeze)
+- **TBC**: Week 14 - [Test Freeze](../release_phases.md#test-freeze)
+- **TBC**: Week 15 - Docs must be completed and reviewed
+- **Tuesday 19th April 2022**: Week 15 - Kubernetes v1.24.0 released
+- **TBC**: Week 16 - [Release Retrospective][Retrospective Document] part 2
+- **TBC**: Week 16 - [Release Retrospective][Retrospective Document] part 3
+
+## Timeline
+
+| **What** | **Who** | **When** | **Week** | **CI Signal** |
+|---|---|-------|---|---|
+| Start of Release Cycle | Lead | | week 1 | [master-blocking] |
+| Start Enhancements Tracking | Enhancements Lead | **TBC** | week 1 | |
+| Schedule finalized | Lead | **TBC** | week 1 | |
+| Team finalized | Lead | **TBC** | week 1 | |
+| Production Readiness Soft Freeze | Enhancements Lead | **TBC** | week 2 | |
+| Start Release Notes Draft | Release Notes Lead | **TBC** | week 3 | |
+| **Begin [Enhancements Freeze]** ( **Time TBC**) | Enhancements Lead | **TBC** | week 3 | [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
+| 1.24.0-alpha.2 released | Branch Manager | **TBC** | Week 4 | |
+| 1.24.0-alpha.3 released | Branch Manager | **TBC** | Week 6 | |
+| **Begin [Burndown]** (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday meetings) | Lead | **TBC** | week 11 | [1.24-blocking], [master-blocking], [master-informing] |
+| **Call for [Exceptions][Exception]** | Lead | **TBC** | week 11 | |
+| Brace Yourself, Code Freeze is Coming | Comms / Bug Triage | **TBC** | week 11 | |
+| **Begin Feature blog freeze** (**Time TBC**) | Comms Lead | **TBC** | week 11 | |
+| 1.24.0-alpha.4 released | Branch Manager | **TBC** | Week 11 | |
+| Release retrospective part 1 (**Time TBC**) | Community | **TBC** | week 11 | |
+| Burndown Meetings daily| Lead | **TBC** | week 13 | |
+| **Begin [Code Freeze]** (**Time TBC**) | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 13 | |
+| 1.24.0-beta.0 released | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 13 | |
+| Docs deadline - Open placeholder PRs | Docs Lead | **TBC** | week 13 | |
+| **[Test Freeze]** (**Time TBC**) | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 14 | |
+| Docs deadline - PRs ready for review | Docs Lead | **TBC** | week 14 | |
+| 1.24.0-rc.0 released | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 14 | |
+| release-1.24 branch created | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 14 | |
+| release-1.24 jobs created | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 14 | |
+| Start final draft of Release Notes | Release Notes Lead | **TBC** | week 14 | |
+| Release blog ready to review (**Time TBC**) | Comms / Docs | **TBC** | week 14 | |
+| Docs complete - All PRs reviewed and ready to merge | Docs Lead | **TBC** | week 15 | |
+| Feature blogs ready to review (**Time TBC**)| Enhancement Owner / SIG Leads | **TBC** | week 15 | |
+| Release Notes complete - reviewed & merged to `k/sig-release` (**Time TBC**) | Release Notes Lead | **TBC** | week 15 | |
+| 1.24.0-rc.1 released | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 15 | |
+| **v1.24.0 released** | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 16 | |
+| Release blog published | Comms | **TBC** | week 16 | |
+| **[Thaw]** | Branch Manager | **TBC** | week 16 | |
+| Release retrospective part 2 (**TBC**) | Community | **TBC** | week 17 | |
+| Release retrospective part 3 (**TBC**) | Community | **TBC** | week 17 | |
+
+## Phases
+
+Please refer to the [release phases document](../release_phases.md).
+
+[k8s124-calendar]: https://bit.ly/k8s-release-cal
+[Internal Contact Info]: https://bit.ly/k8s124-contacts
+[Retrospective Document]: https://bit.ly/k8s124-retro
+
+[Enhancements Freeze]: ../release_phases.md#enhancements-freeze
+[Burndown]: ../release_phases.md#burndown
+[Code Freeze]: ../release_phases.md#code-freeze
+[Exception]: ../release_phases.md#exceptions
+[Thaw]: ../release_phases.md#thaw
+[Test Freeze]: ../release_phases.md#test-freeze
+
+[release-team@]: https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/release-team
+[kubernetes-sig-release@]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-sig-release
+[#sig-release]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/sig-release/
+[kubernetes-release-calendar]: https://bit.ly/k8s-release-cal
+[kubernetes/kubernetes]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
+
+[master-blocking]: https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-release-master-blocking#Summary
+[master-informing]: https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-release-master-informing#Summary
+[1.24-blocking]: https://testgrid.k8s.io/sig-release-1.24-blocking#Summary
+
+[exception requests]: ../EXCEPTIONS.md
+[release phases document]: ../release_phases.md

releases/release-1.24/release-team.md

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+# Kubernetes 1.24 Release Team
+
+| **Role** | **Name** (**GitHub / Slack ID**) | **Shadow Name(s) (GitHub / Slack ID)** |
+|----------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
+| Lead | James Laverack ([@JamesLaverack](https://github.com/JamesLaverack) / Slack: `@james.laverack`) | Jesse Butler ([@jlbutler](https://github.com/jlbutler) / Slack: `@Jesse Butler`), Xander Grzywinski ([@salaxander](https://github.com/salaxander) / Slack: `@Xander`), Cici Huang ([@cici37](https://github.com/cici37) / Slack: `@cici37`), Max Körbächer ([@mkorbi](https://github.com/mkorbi) / Slack: `@mkorbi`) |
+| Enhancements | Grace Nguyen ([@gracenng](https://github.com/gracenng) / Slack: `@Grace Nguyen`) | |
+| CI Signal | Leonard Vincent Simon Pahlke ([@leonardpahlke](https://github.com/leonardpahlke) / Slack: `@lvspahlke`) | |
+| Bug Triage | Jyoti Mahapatra ([@jyotimahapatra](https://github.com/jyotimahapatra) / Slack: `@Jyoti Mahapatra`) | |
+| Docs | Nate Waddington ([@nate-double-u](https://github.com/nate-double-u) / Slack: `@nate-double-u`) | |
+| Release Notes | Lucas Dwyer ([@AuraSinis](https://github.com/AuraSinis) / Slack: `@Lucas Dwyer`) | |
+| Communications | Mickey Boxell ([@mickeyboxell](https://github.com/mickeyboxell) / Slack: `@mickey`) | |
+| Emeritus Adviser | Joseph Sandoval ([@jrsapi](https://github.com/jrsapi) / Slack: `@Joseph`) | |
+| Branch Manager | Nabarun Pal ([@palnabarun](https://github.com/palnabarun) / Slack: `@palnabarun`) | |
+
+Review the [Release Managers page](/release-managers.md) for up-to-date contact information on Release Engineering personnel.
+
+The schedule for all patch releases can be found at [Patch Releases page](/releases/patch-releases.md). It will be updated to include 1.24, once the 1.24 release cycle concludes.