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

@@ -198,17 +198,17 @@ features:
         in GitLab 9.3 that should not only make GitLab feel faster, but reduce
         overall impact on server infrastructure.
-    - name: Inline description inline edit
+    - name: "Edit Issue's Description Faster" #suggestion https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/5804/diffs#note_32569519
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/index.html'
-      documentation_text: "Learn more about issues in GitLab"
+      documentation_text: "Learn more about GitLab Issues"
       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
         thread. With this release, it's much easier to edit the description
         by simply clicking `Edit` as before. You now do not have to go to a separate
-        web form. Just make the update inline, and click `Save changes` to persist
+        web form. Just make the update inline, and click **Save changes** to persist
         the changes.
     - name: Bulk issue edit re-design