Publishing a Release Track is actually pretty simple if you understand a) that the publish-release command requires a .json file as a parameter, and b) what that file looks like. That's definitely the biggest hurdle in getting started, because it's pretty much not documented anywhere.
Just keep in mind that every package in the release has to be published and on Atmosphere. The .meteor/versions file of an app is a particularly good place for finding all the necessary packages and versions that should go into the release.
After that, it's a matter of figuring out what you're willing to support, what you want to include, etc. Here is a partial Venn Diagram of what the Clinical Release is currently working on; and should give you a general idea of how we're going about the decision making process of what gets included.
For more discussion, see the topic on the Meteor Forums:
https://forums.meteor.com/t/custom-meteor-release/13736/6