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)

.gitlab/merge_request_templates/Release-Post.md

@@ -13,28 +13,29 @@ Due date: MM/DD (6th working day before the 22nd)
 - [ ] Add milestone 
 - [ ] Intro
 - [ ] MVP
-- [ ] Webcast link
+- [ ] Add cover image `image_title` (compressed)
 - [ ] Upgrade barometer
-- [ ] Main features
-- [ ] Secondary features
-- [ ] Other features
+- [ ] Top features
+- [ ] Primary features
+- [ ] Secondary features (improvements)
 - [ ] Performance improvements
 - [ ] Omnibus improvements
 - [ ] Deprecations
-- [ ] Extras
 - [ ] Documentation links
 - [ ] Authorship (author's data)
-### Content Review
-Due date: MM/DD (4th working day before the 22nd)
+### Review
+#### Content review (PMs)
+
+Due date: MM/DD (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
-  - [ ] Add `data/promo.yml`
+  - [ ] Update `data/promo.yml`
   - [ ] Check all images' size - compress whenever > 300KB
   - [ ] Meaningful links (SEO)
   - [ ] Check links to product/feature webpages
@@ -44,24 +45,17 @@ Due date: MM/DD (4th working day before the 22nd)
   - [ ] Grammar, spelling, clearness (body)
 - [ ] Final review (Job)
-### Structure & Styles
-
-Add HTML/CSS structure to style the blog post, review markup. Technical Writing / Frontend / UX.
-Due date: MM/DD (1st working day before the 22nd)
+#### Structural Check
+Due date: MM/DD (2nd working day before the 22nd)
 - 1. Structural check
 - [ ] Label MR: ~"blog post" ~release ~review-structure
 - [ ] Check frontmatter (entries, syntax)
-  - [ ] Uncomment custom css and custom js
-- [ ] Add cover image `image_title` - compressed
-- [ ] Add social sharing image `twitter_image` - compressed
+- [ ] Check `image_title` and `twitter_image`
 - [ ] Check image shadow `{:.shadow}`
 - [ ] Check images' `ALT` text
 - [ ] Videos/iframes wrapped in `<figure>` tags (responsiveness)
-- 2. Apply styles
-- [ ] Add/check html parser `{::options parse_block_html="true" /}`
-- [ ] Apply semantic HTML (sections, divs, classes, ids)
 - [ ] Add/check `<!-- more -->` separator
 - [ ] Add/check cover img reference (at the end of the post)
 - [ ] Columns (content balance between the columns)