Add a release checklist.

I always forget things, this is good documentation, and it's been
helpful with the opus releases.

svn path=/trunk/vorbis/; revision=19461

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+libvorbis release checklist.
+
+- Bump vendor string for encoder changes in lib/info.c
+- Bump release version and sonames in configure.ac
+- Update CHANGES.
+- Verify 'make distcheck' works.
+- Verify everything is committed.
+- Tag release:
+  svn cp https://svn.xiph.org/trunk/vorbis https://svn.xiph.org/tags/vorbis/libvorbis-x.y.z
+- Copy source packages to a checkout of https://svn.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/
+- Add them to the repo and update checksum files there.
+- Update download links on xiph.org.
+- Announce new release to mailing list.