WIP: GitLab 9.2 release post
Release Post
Handbook:
- Blog handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/
- Release post handbook (coming soon)
General Contributions
General contributions from the team.
Due date: 04/14
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Label MR: blog post release -
Add milestone -
Intro -
MVP -
Webcast link -
Upgrade barometer -
Main features -
Secondary features -
Other features -
Performance improvements -
Omnibus improvements -
Deprecations -
Extras -
Documentation links -
Authorship (author's data)
Content Review
Due date: 04/16
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Label MR: blog post release review-in-progress -
General review (PM) -
Check Features' names -
Check Features' availability (CE, EES, EEP) -
Check Documentation links -
Add data/promo.yml -
Check all images' size - compress whenever > 300KB -
Meaningful links (SEO) -
Check links to product/feature webpages
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Copyedit (Sean P, Rebecca, or Marcia) -
Title -
Description -
Grammar, spelling, clearness (body)
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Final review (Job)
Structure & Styles
Add HTML/CSS structure to style the blog post, review markup. Technical Writing / Frontend / UX.
Due date: 04/19
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- Structural check
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Label MR: blog post release review-structure -
Check frontmatter (entries, syntax) -
Uncomment custom css and custom js
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Add cover image image_title- compressed -
Add social sharing image twitter_image- compressed -
Check image shadow {:.shadow} -
Check images' ALTtext -
Videos/iframes wrapped in <figure>tags (responsiveness) -
- Apply styles
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Add/check html parser {::options parse_block_html="true" /} -
Apply semantic HTML (sections, divs, classes, ids) -
Add/check <!-- more -->separator -
Add/check cover img reference (at the end of the post) -
Columns (content balance between the columns) -
Badges consistency (applied to all headings) -
Remove any remaining instructions -
Remove HTML comments -
Run deadlink checker -
Update release template with any changes (if necessary)
Review Apps link: https://release-9-2.about.gitlab.com/2017/05/22/gitlab-9-2-released/