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

@@ -337,19 +337,6 @@ features:
         to create and manage Pipeline Schedules through a set of API,
         in order to allow integration with other tools simple and effective.
-    - name: Additional GitLab Service Metrics #review: pending docs, pending replacement fo "x,y,z" below
-      available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
-      documentation_link: ''
-      documentation_text: "Learn more "
-      image_url:
-      description: |
-        GitLab is at the heart of an organization's software engineering worfklow,
-        so ensuring it is performing at it's best is important.
-        With the 9.3 release, we have made it possible to get a deeper look
-        inside GitLab by offering a number of additional metrics for monitoring.
-        These include x, y, z, and we will continue to add additional metrics
-        in subsequent releases.
-
     - name: Performance Impact of Merge Request are now Quantified
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: ''
@@ -368,7 +355,7 @@ features:
     - name: Debian 9 Support
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       description: |
-        With the Debian 9 release a few days ago, GitLab is proud to bring support
+        With the [release of Debian 9](https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617) just a few days old, GitLab is proud to bring support
         to the platform with the 9.3 release. Packages are available on our
         [installation page](https://about.gitlab.com/installation).
@@ -383,19 +370,18 @@ features:
         [filter the log output](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/merge_requests/1585).
         This will be a transparent upgrade for users, however if you have added
-        [nginx your own customizations](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc/settings/nginx.md#inserting-custom-nginx-settings-into-the-gitlab-server-block)
-        to the configuration, please ensure they continue to work with version 1.12.
+        [your own customizations](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc/settings/nginx.md#inserting-custom-nginx-settings-into-the-gitlab-server-block)
+        to the nginx configuration, please ensure they continue to work with version 1.12.
     - name: Omnibus Improvements
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link:
       image_url:
       description: |
-        #### GitLab Mattermost 3.10
-
-        - GitLab 9.3 includes [Mattermost 3.10](https://about.mattermost.com/mattermost-3-10), [an open source Slack-alternative](https://about.mattermost.com/), with new support for Turkish language, new keyboard shortcuts, and much more.
-        - Postgres has been updated to 9.6.3.
-        - Git has been updated to 2.13.0.
+        <h4 id="gitlab-mattermost-3_9">GitLab Mattermost 3.10</h4>
+        <p>GitLab 9.3 includes <a href="https://about.mattermost.com/mattermost-3-10">Mattermost 3.10</a>, <a href="https://about.mattermost.com/">an open source Slack-alternative</a> with new support for Turkish language, new keyboard shortcuts, and much more.</p>
+        <h4 id="git-and-postgresql">Git and PostgreSQL</h4>
+        <p>The bundled Git and PostgreSQL packages have been updated. Git is now v2.13.0 and Postgres is v9.6.3.</p>
 # MVP
 mvp: