GitLab 9.2 release post

Review App https://release-9-2.about.gitlab.com/2017/05/22/gitlab-9-2-released/

Handbook:

• Blog handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/
• Release post handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/

General Contributions

General contributions from the team.

Due date: 05/14

• 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 => none
• Documentation links
• Authorship (author's data)

Content Review

Due date: 05/16

• 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
• Copyedit (Sean P, Rebecca, or Marcia)
  • Title
  • Description
  • Grammar, spelling, clearness (body)
• Final review (Job)

Structure & Styles

Add HTML/CSS structure to style the blog post, review markup. Technical Writing / Frontend / UX.

Due date: 05/19

• 1. Structural check
• Label MR: blog post release review-structure
• Check frontmatter (entries, syntax)
  • Uncomment custom css and custom js => N/A
• Add cover image image_title - compressed
• Add social sharing image twitter_image - compressed
• Check image shadow {:.shadow}
• Check images' ALT text
• Videos/iframes wrapped in <figure> tags (responsiveness) => no videos
• 2. Apply styles
• Add/check html parser {::options parse_block_html="true" /} => N/A
• 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) => will be done by https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/1393

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