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

@@ -445,12 +445,12 @@ barometer:
 # DEPRECATIONS
 deprecations:
-  - feature_name: Dropping support for subgroups in MySQL
-    due: June 22nd 2017
+  - feature_name: Dropping Support for Subgroups in MySQL
+    due: June 22nd, 2017.
     description: |
       In 9.0 we released an enhancement to group management by
-      [introducing subroups](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/22/gitlab-9-0-released/#subgroups-ce-ee).
-      Unfortunately for performance and consistency, we have to drop this
+      [introducing subroups](/2017/03/22/gitlab-9-0-released/#subgroups-ce-ee).
+      Unfortunately, for performance and consistency, we have to drop this
       feature on GitLab instances running MySQL. Subgroups will no longer be
       available on MySQL in GitLab 9.3 and the upgrade process will migrate any
       subgroups to the root of the GitLab server.
@@ -458,12 +458,12 @@ deprecations:
       While investigating some occurrences of inconsistencies with project
       membership, we [discovered](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30472#note_27747600)
       that our approach to implementing subgroups was
-      not efficient. While PostgreSQL provides easy workarounds, MySQL
+      not efficient enough. While PostgreSQL provides easy workarounds, MySQL
       unfortunately did not provide any alternatives that did not require vastly
       changing the way we store the hierarchy of groups.
       In order to quickly address the issue, we have removed support from
-      subgroups in 9.3.
+      Subgroups in 9.3.
       If you are running on MySQL and have created subgroups in your GitLab
       instance, the upgrade process will convert any subgroups to regular groups.