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

@@ -351,13 +351,18 @@ features:
         [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.
-    - name: Additional Gitlab service metrics now available
+    - name: Additional GitLab Service Metrics
       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.
+        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 now quantified
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]