Add release cadence
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ Every successful CI build of the main branch automatically executes `./gradlew p
as the last step, which publishes a snapshot build to
[Sonatype OSS snapshots repository](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/io/opentelemetry/).
+## Release cadence
+
+This repository roughly targets monthly minor releases from the `main` branch on the Wednesday after
+the second Monday of the month (roughly a few of days after the monthly minor release of
+[opentelemetry-java](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java)).
+
## Preparing a new major or minor release
* Close the release milestone if there is one.
