assembling release v26.10 team and roadmap

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✏️ Summary of Changes

WORK IN PROGRESS:
assembling release v26.10 team and roadmap, as discussed in the Community Distribution meeting 22/June/2026.

Once PR is ready to merge I will squash the commits

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Pull request overview

Adds initial documentation scaffolding for the Kubeflow AI Reference Platform 26.10 release (team roster + proposed timeline) and introduces a 26.03 release retrospective document.

Changes:

• Add 26.10 release landing page with links, contacts, and a proposed week-by-week schedule.
• Add 26.10 release team roster document.
• Add a 26.03 retrospective document capturing process learnings.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

File	Description
releases/retrospectives/release-26.03.md	New 26.03 retrospective document (needs link + wording fixes per comments).
releases/release-26.10/release-team.md	New 26.10 release team roster table.
releases/release-26.10/README.md	New 26.10 release overview with proposed timeline table and key links.