GitLab 9.3 release post
Review Apps link: https://release-9-3.about.gitlab.com/2017/06/22/gitlab-9-3-released/
Release Post 
- Blog handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/
- Release post handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/
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General contributions from the team.
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@markpundsack You may want to mention the GitLab CI configuration validation part of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/11195.
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@mydigitalself You may want to include https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/11224
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@marcia @victorwu Proposed blog post section for Mattermost 3.10:
GitLab Mattermost 3.10
GitLab 9.3 includes Mattermost 3.10, an open source Slack-alternative, with new support for Turkish language, new keyboard shortcuts, and much more.
### GitLab Mattermost 3.10 GitLab 9.3 includes [Mattermost 3.10](https://about.mattermost.com/mattermost-3-10), [an open source Slack-alternative](https://about.mattermost.com/), with new support for Turkish language, new keyboard shortcuts, and much more.added 727 commits
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@bikebilly Did this note for Mattermost make it to the announce? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/5804#note_32355212
Sorry, I misread the assignee of this issue and mentioned the wrong people.
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Updated it. Thanks for checking!
Things that need fixing:
- Automated monitoring for system services - Missing image. Also, is this moved to 9.4? If so, remove it.
- Issue board usability improvements - Changes are missing in docs, image is missing
- Internationalization of Project Home & Repository Files pages - Missing image (if we want to add one)
- Improvements to subgroups - Need to update screenshots in docs
- Additional Gitlab service metrics now available - Needs more info, link to docs (if scheduled for 9.3)
- Performance impact of merge request now quantified - Link to docs missing
- GitLab Mattermost 3.10 - This seems to be under an "Omnibus Improvements" section with its own heading. Should it be that way?
- Relative URL changes now require downtime - Is this documented in Omnibus docs? If so, we should link there.
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@fabio @marcia : I didn't want to screw up the formatting. Could you please help me move the convdev section to be the third section in the blog post? It's a very powerful feature. But it's less interesting to the main audience of the blog post, namely developers. The feature is more relevant to perhaps team leads, VPs, CTOs, and buyers of GitLab, not necessarily day to day users.
And maybe update the title to be the last feature there?Per https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C3TRESYPJ/p1497632293612966, just remove it from the title.Edited by Victor Wuadded 6 commits
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@bikebilly I left comments where I found necessary, should be ready for your pass. Would you please assign it to @amara on Monday when you finish your part so that she can do the last review with marketing eyes
Also, please check the task list items for your content review.
Thanks!
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@fabio @JobV I updated the Omnibus improvements section to mirror what we had for GitLab 9.2. Please review and let me know what you think, otherwise we can move it out into its own section.
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@mydigitalself We moved https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1370 to
9.4as it wasn't gonna make it before the feature freeze. I think we can just remove the part about the additional user events from the audit section?It looks like the release post got deployed to the main website by accident. My rss reader notified me about a new release I wasn't expecting. https://about.gitlab.com/2017/06/22/gitlab-9-3-released/ is currently showing the release post.
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Thank you @p-schneider! It's solved now :)
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@bikebilly Yes, please. If it is in CE, the link should point to CE docs ;) Please let us know if there's any inconsistency!
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@bikebilly regarding https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/5804#note_32710537,
If the feature is available in CE, please link to the CE docs.
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404in EE, but works in CE. Is it expected?Yes, it is. When CE gets merged into EE, this doc will be available in EE too. ;)
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I've already done it (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/a4defed61115caae22f891531018b5a6eb7cb77e) @bikebilly, but the file
data/promo.ymlshould be part of the same MR, yes. It's a CTA to the post from about.gitlab.com home page:
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Thank you @glensc, we're gonna fix it ;)
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320 320 `LICENSE` files are also analyzed, and the information about the specific 321 321 license is easily accessible with a link for further details about it. 322 322 323 - name: Autolinking package names 324 available_in: [ce, ees, eep] 325 image_url: '/images/9_3/autolink.png' 326 description: | 327 Ah, packges, those little gems (hah!) of wisdom wrapped up and ready for re-use. -
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@bikebilly I'm done with my review. There are two outstanding comments.
The only other change we should make is updating the GitLab Products section of the template, when we get to that checklist item in the issue description.
The new EEP description should be
Ideal for distributed teams who need advanced workflow controls, advanced CI/CD, advanced Monitoring, advanced Project Management, and High Availability.
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The only other change we should make is updating the GitLab Products section of the template, when we get to that checklist item in the issue description.
Thanks @amara, this is on me ;)
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I think people can see the general idea, when you zoom into a portion it looks a little silly.
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@mydigitalself @DouweM I suggest that we advertise that we officially have a way to support SSH lookups via DB: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/speed_up_ssh.html
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@fabio The link to documentation for Multi-project pipelines has a bad anchor. It's missing an
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Isn't it a bit late in the game to be making additions? I don't know if this is EE only, if it was introduced recently and is only available in 9.3 or works on earlier versions. @DouweM and @stanhu aren't around now to answer these questions so my suggestion would be to leave this out to reduce additional noise and focus on getting the post published.
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This means your code reviews are faster and you guarantee that you’re accumulating technical debt.
Isn’t that supposed to be “that you’re NOT accumulating technical debt”?
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Ooops @louiz, yes, nice catch! Thank you!
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