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/

General Contributions

General contributions from the team.

Due date: 06/14 (6th working day before the 22nd)

• Label MR: blog post release
• Add milestone
• Intro
• MVP
• Add cover image image_title (compressed)
• Upgrade barometer
• Top features
• Primary features
• Secondary features (improvements)
• Performance improvements
• Omnibus improvements
• Deprecations
• Documentation links
• Authorship (author's data)

Review

Content review (PMs)

Due date: 06/19 (2nd working day before the 22nd)

• Label MR: blog post release review-in-progress
• General review (PM)
  • Check Features' names
  • Check Features' availability (CE, EES, EEP)
  • Check Documentation links
  • Update 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)

Structural Check

Due date: 06/19 (2nd working day before the 22nd)

• Label MR: blog post release review-structure
• Check frontmatter (entries, syntax)
• Check image_title and twitter_image
• Check image shadow {:.shadow}
• Check images' ALT text
• Videos/iframes wrapped in <figure> tags (responsiveness)
• 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)

data/release_posts/2017_06_22_gitlab_9_3_released.yml

+###
+#
+# Release post data file
+#
+# Notes:
+#  - All description fields support markdown. Make sure the indentation is respected.
+#
+## Optional fields:
+# - Features
+#   - Top:
+#     - documentation_text: "Learn more about Amazing Feature" # text displaying the documentation_link
+#   - Primary:
+#     - documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/#amazing' # webpage or documentation
+#     - documentation_text: "Learn more about Amazing Feature" # text displaying the documentation_link
+#   - Secondary, upgrade barometer, deprecations:
+#     - documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/#amazing' # webpage or documentation
+#     - documentation_text: "Learn more about Amazing Feature" # text displaying the documentation_link
+#     - image_url: '/images/x_y/feature-a.png'
+#   - Optional to all features:
+#     - image_noshadow: true # this eliminates double shadows for images that already have a shadow
+#
+# Read through the Release Posts Handbook for more information:
+# https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/
+#
+###
+
 features:
   top:
     - name: Top feature