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

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ features:
         GitLab is a fully featured software development platform to help
         you get your idea to production as quickly and efficiently as possible.
-        With GitLab 9.3, we are shipping **Conversational Development Index (ConvDev)** 
+        With GitLab 9.3, we are shipping **Conversational Development Index (ConvDev)**
         to provide you with insightful metrics of your feature usage. It even compares your usage
         with other top-performers using GitLab in each area, helping you identify
         which parts you can further improve.
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ features:
         **Note**: ConvDev is not available on GitLab.com.
         {:.note}
-        
-        Learn mroe 
+
+        Learn mroe
     - name: Protected Variables for Enhanced Pipelines Security
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
@@ -107,16 +107,8 @@ features:
         access to an improved, centralized Audit Log that includes all audit
         events from Groups, Projects, and user actions.
-        Additionally the user audit events, that were previously limited to just
-        authentication events, have been expanded to include the following actions:
-
-         - Add a new email address
-         - Remove an email address
-         - Password change
-         - Forget password
-         - Failed to login
-         - Add SSH key
-         - Grant OAuth access
+        The centralized Audit Log also includes the ability to filter events by
+        type and name, so you can easily track down events by group, project or user.
     - name: Settings made simple #review pending feedback https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/5804/diffs#note_32568508
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
@@ -167,12 +159,12 @@ features:
       documentation_text: "Learn more about GitLab Snippets"
       image_url: '/images/9_3/snippet_descriptions.png'
       description: |
-        Snippets now have descriptions. This follows personal snippet comments, which 
+        Snippets now have descriptions. This follows personal snippet comments, which
         were added in the [previous release](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/05/22/gitlab-9-2-released/).
         Snippets are a great tool for quick and informal collaboration around code
         ideas. We're now bringing the power of issues and merge request collaboration
         to snippets too.
-        
+
     - name: Group Label Permissions #review pending feedback https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/5804/diffs#note_32569203
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/permissions.html'