FINERACT-2448: standardize on release ready, improve releases section

I want us to standardize on being "release ready". That is, we agree to do our best to keep incomplete features off `develop` and to keep the build passing. As part of this change I also want to update the [VERSIONS section in the README](https://github.com/apache/fineract/blob/d093a089c9c13051eb8922100e38e44a3933fd9c/README.md#versions) to more accurately reflect how we do releases today.
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+TIP: Be **release ready** and reduce release time by weeks. Keep incomplete features off `develop` and fix the build as soon as it breaks. If `develop` is kept release ready, this 17 day timeline can be reduced to about a week: Skip the "ca. 2 weeks" indicated in <<Step 3: Create Release Branch>>.
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