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/applications.yml

@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@
       links:
         - url: http://branchesapp.co
           title: branchesapp.co
+    - title: Zulip
+      content: Get notifications about your GitLab projects in Zulip. Zulip is the world's most productive group chat and the leading open source alternative to Slack. With Zulip, you don't have to choose between missing important conversations and wasting time reading irrelevant ones.
+      links:
+        - url: https://zulipchat.com/
+          title: About Zulip
+        - url: https://zulipchat.com/integrations/#gitlab
+          title: Zulip's GitLab integration
 - title: CLI Clients
   id: cli-clients
   applications:
@@ -389,6 +396,11 @@
       links:
         - url: /features/gitlab-ci-cd/
           title: GitLab CI
+    - title: Bitrise
+      content: Hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery service for mobile apps. Craft powerful workflows to automate build, testing, deployment and feedback cycles to have more time for actual coding, while having constant overview about the state of your app.
+      links:
+        - url: https://www.bitrise.io
+          title: Bitrise.io
     - title: BuildKite
       content: BuildKite runs builds on GitLab commits, either on self-hosted GitLab repositories or GitLab.com.
       links:
@@ -433,7 +445,7 @@
         - url: https://www.buddybuild.com/blog/buddybuild-gitlab-integration
           title: buddybuild
     - title: Terraform
-      content: HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise provides integration with version control systems (VCS) to facilitate collaboration on infrastructure as code. 
+      content: HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise provides integration with version control systems (VCS) to facilitate collaboration on infrastructure as code.
       links:
         - url: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-enterprise-integration-for-gitlab/
           title: Terraform