schedule: add release schedule in yaml machine readable format

releases/patch-releases.md

@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ of the actual release.
 Cherry-pick PRs which miss merge criteria will be carried over and tracked
 for the next patch release.
 
+## Patch Release Timelines
+
+To generate the below table, please run the schedule parser located in [Kubernetes Release repository](https://github.com/kubernetes/release/tree/master/hack/schedule-parser) passing the up-to-date `schedule.yaml` that you can find `releases/schedule.yaml`
+
+To get that markdown text you can run the following command
+
+```
+$ go run schedule-parser.go
+```
+
 ## Timelines
 
 ### 1.18

releases/schedule.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+schedules:
+- release: 1.18
+  next: 1.18.4
+  cherryPickDeadline: 2020-06-12
+  targetDate: 2020-06-17
+  endOfLifeDate: TBD
+  previousPatches:
+    - release: 1.18.3
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-05-15
+      targetDate: 2020-05-20
+    - release: 1.18.2
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-04-13
+      targetDate: 2020-04-16
+    - release: 1.18.1
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-04-06
+      targetDate: 2020-04-08
+- release: 1.17
+  next: 1.17.7
+  cherryPickDeadline: 2020-06-12
+  targetDate: 2020-06-17
+  endOfLifeDate: TBD
+  previousPatches:
+    - release: 1.17.6
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-05-15
+      targetDate: 2020-05-20
+    - release: 1.17.5
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-04-13
+      targetDate: 2020-04-16
+    - release: 1.17.4
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-03-09
+      targetDate: 2020-03-12
+    - release: 1.17.3
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-02-07
+      targetDate: 2020-02-11
+    - release: 1.17.2
+      cherryPickDeadline: "No-op release https://groups.google.com/d/topic/kubernetes-dev/Mhpx-loSBns/discussion"
+      targetDate: 2020-01-21
+    - release: 1.17.1
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-01-10
+      targetDate: 2020-01-14
+- release: 1.16
+  next: 1.16.11
+  cherryPickDeadline: 2020-06-12
+  targetDate: 2020-06-17
+  endOfLifeDate: TBD
+  previousPatches:
+    - release: 1.16.10
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-05-15
+      targetDate: 2020-05-20
+    - release: 1.16.9
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-04-13
+      targetDate: 2020-04-16
+    - release: 1.16.8
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-03-09
+      targetDate: 2020-03-12
+    - release: 1.16.7
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-02-07
+      targetDate: 2020-02-11
+    - release: 1.16.6
+      cherryPickDeadline: "No-op release https://groups.google.com/d/topic/kubernetes-dev/Mhpx-loSBns/discussion"
+      targetDate: 2020-01-21
+    - release: 1.16.5
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2020-01-10
+      targetDate: 2020-01-14
+    - release: 1.16.4
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2019-12-06
+      targetDate: 2019-12-11
+    - release: 1.16.3
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2019-11-08
+      targetDate: 2019-11-13
+    - release: 1.16.2
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2019-10-11
+      targetDate: 2019-10-15
+    - release: 1.16.1
+      cherryPickDeadline: 2019-09-27
+      targetDate: 2019-10-02