These are things that needed to be checked for a release:

  * change the description in dists/xxx/Release
  * check the volume labels on ISO's for all architectures (cdimage/debian-cd/CONF.sh, OFFICIAL variable)
  * 

Release timeline:

  * 7 days prior:
    * release candidate release
    * final artwork
    * draft release announcement
    * 

  * 1 day before:
    * finalise release announcement
    * finalise media announcement list (list of email addresses, and who is sending)
    * make sure candidate final iso is in pool dir on mirror-master
    * verify torrents are working
    * verify that all servers have the image internally (releases, archive, cdimage)