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

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ features:
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/issues/confidential_issues.html'
       documentation_text: "Learn more"
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/confidential_issues_re_design.png'
+      image_url: ['/images/9_3/confidential_issues_re_design_1.png', '/images/9_3/confidential_issues_re_design_2.png']
       description: |
         We tweaked the design of confidential issues in this release, making
         it more obvious when you are participating in one. This is especially
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ features:
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/integrations/jira.html'
       documentation_text: "Learn more"
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/jira_settings_improvements.gif'
+      image_url: '/images/9_3/jira_settings_improvements.png'
       description: |
         For JIRA users, we improved the JIRA integration settings in this release,
         making it easier to set up and test your connection from your GitLab project
@@ -194,11 +194,11 @@ features:
         in GitLab 9.3 that should not only make GitLab feel faster, but reduce
         overall impact on server infrastructure.    
-    - name: Inline issue description edit
+    - name: Inline description inline edit
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: ''
       documentation_text: "Learn more "
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/'
+      image_url: '/images/9_3/issue_description_inline_edit.png'
       description: |
         The issue description serves as the single source of truth when teams
         collaborate on work and ideas are rapidly flowing in the issue comment
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ features:
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/index.html'
       documentation_text: "Learn more "
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/bulk_issue_edit_re_design.gif'
+      image_url: '/images/9_3/bulk_issue_edit_re_design.png'
       description: |
         We've made bulk editing issues even simpler and more intuitive in
         this latest release. We've leveraged the sidebar paradigm that already
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ features:
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/issue_board.html'
       documentation_text: "Learn more"
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/issue_board_usability_improvements.gif'
+      image_url: ['issue_board_usability_improvements_1.png', 'issue_board_usability_improvements_2.png']
       description: |
         We recognize that teams use issue boards in a variety of ways. To make
         it usable for even more teams, we now have collapsible Backlog and
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ features:
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/search/'
       documentation_text: "Learn more"
-      image_url: '/images/9_3/search_filter_bar_improvements.gif'
+      image_url: '/images/9_3/search_filter_bar_improvements.png'
       description: |
         We continue to make incremental improvements to the search/filter bar. You
         can now view user avatars. Clicking on a filter will activate the dropdown,