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

@@ -50,17 +50,17 @@ features:
         
 # PRIMARY FEATURES
   primary:
-    - name: Multi-Project Pipelines Graph
+    - name: Multi-Project Pipeline Graphs
       available_in: [eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines.html#multi-project-pipelines-graph'
-      documentation_text: "Learn more about the multi-project pipelines graph"
+      documentation_text: "Learn more about Multi-Project Pipeline Graphs"
       image_url: '/images/9_3/multi-project_pipelines.png'
       description: |
         Larger projects, especially those adopting a micro-services
         architecture, often have a set of interdependent components
         that form the complete product.
-        With the first iteration of Multi-Project Pipelines, GitLab 9.3 will show links for upstream and downstream projects directly in the pipeline graph, so developers can check the overall status of the entire chain in one single view.
+        With the first iteration of Multi-Project Pipelines, GitLab 9.3 displays links for upstream and downstream projects directly on the pipeline graph, so developers can check the overall status of the entire pipeline chain in one single view.
     - name: Code Quality results in the merge request widget area
       available_in: [ees, eep]