docs: complete the calendar and release schedule documentation

As suggested by Emil Velikov.

Cc: Dylan Baker <dylan.c.baker@intel.com>
Cc: Juan A. Suarez <jasuarez@igalia.com>
Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Gomez <agomez@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>

diff --git a/docs/release-calendar.html b/docs/release-calendar.html
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--- a/docs/release-calendar.html
+++ b/docs/release-calendar.html
@@ -23,6 +23,16 @@ Mesa provides feature/development and stable releases.
 The table below lists the date and release manager that is expected to do the
 specific release.
 <br>
+Regular updates will ensure that the schedule for the current and the
+next two feature releases are shown in the table.
+<br>
+In order to keep the whole releasing team up to date with the tools
+used, best practices and other details, the member in charge of the
+next feature release will be in constant rotation.
+<br>
+The way the release schedule works is
+explained <a href="releasing.html#schedule" target="_parent">here</a>.
+<br>
 Take a look <a href="submittingpatches.html#criteria" target="_parent">here</a>
 if you'd like to nominate a patch in the next stable release.
 </p>

diff --git a/docs/releasing.html b/docs/releasing.html
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--- a/docs/releasing.html
+++ b/docs/releasing.html
@@ -56,9 +56,10 @@ For example:
 
 <p>
 Releases should happen on Wednesdays. Delays can occur although those
-should be keep to a minimum.
+should be kept to a minimum.
 <br>
-See our <a href="release-calendar.html" target="_parent">calendar</a> for the
+See our <a href="release-calendar.html" target="_parent">calendar</a>
+for information about how the release schedule is planned, and the
 date and other details for individual releases.
 </p>
 
@@ -67,6 +68,9 @@ date and other details for individual releases.
 <li>Available approximately every three months.
 <li>Initial timeplan available 2-4 weeks before the planned branchpoint (rc1)
 on the mesa-announce@ mailing list.
+<li>Typically, the final release will happen after 4
+candidates. Additional ones may be needed in order to resolve blocking
+regressions, though.
 <li>A <a href="#prerelease">pre-release</a> announcement should be available
 approximately 24 hours before the final (non-rc) release.
 </ul>
@@ -84,6 +88,12 @@ Note: There is one or two releases overlap when changing branches. For example:
 <br>
 The final release from the 12.0 series Mesa 12.0.5 will be out around the same
 time (or shortly after) 13.0.1 is out.
+<br>
+This also involves that, as a final release may be delayed due to the
+need of additional candidates to solve some blocking regression(s),
+the release manager might have to update
+the <a href="release-calendar.html" target="_parent">calendar</a> with
+additional bug fix releases of the current stable branch.
 </p>