Logs beta/rc/stable release timelines

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Release plan for Logs

The components in scope are:

• Logs bridge API (opentelemetry crate)
• Logs SDK (opentelemetry-sdk crate)
• Logs InMemory Exporter (opentelemetry-sdk crate)
• Logs OTLP Exporter (opentelemetry-otlp crate)
• Logs stdout Exporter (opentelemetry-stdout crate)
• Logs tokio-tracing appender (opentelemetry-appender-tracing crate)

Beta release - ETA June 30, 2024
Breaking changes are still possible in beta, but have a higher bar than alpha releases.

RC release - ETA Nov 30, 2024
While breaking changes are still possible, it has an extremely high bar here.

Stable release - ETA Jan 30, 2024
No breaking changes are allowed after.

Post the 1st stable release, the following features will be added (listed not in priority order):

• correlating spans generated through tracing-opentelemetry crate [[Feature]: opentelemetry-appender-tracing should respect information inside tracing::Span #1378]
• Supporting OTLP Log pipeline (specifically BatchLogProcessor) without async runtime.[[Feature]: Support Metrics, BatchProcessor without async runtime #1437]
• Stabilising opentelemetry-appender-logs crate