release-checklist.md

 ## Automatic Steps
 ### Build
-- maven package
+- maven package :heavy_check_mark: 
 
 ### Smoke Test
 - test binaries (simple startup smoke test)
 
 ### Artifactory
-- deploy artifacts to artifactory
+- deploy artifacts to artifactory :heavy_check_mark: 
 
 ### Git Branches
 - merge dev branch into master