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

@@ -64,20 +64,20 @@ features:
       description: |
         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](http://conversationaldevelopment.com/))
         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.
-        
+
         In this first iteration, the metrics are only available to GitLab
         system administrators, aggregating data across your entire GitLab
-        instance amongst active users. 
+        instance amongst active users.
         **Note**: the data isn't publicly available on GitLab.com.
         {:.note}
-        
+
     - name: Protected Variables for Enhanced Pipelines Security
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]
       documentation_link: 'https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/variables/#protected-secret-variables'
@@ -102,14 +102,12 @@ features:
       image_url: '/images/9_3/audit_log.png'
       description: |
         Many companies have the need for audit and compliance across the
-        entire development cycle. In GitLab 9.3 the system administrator has
-        access to an improved centralized Audit Log that includes all audit
-        events from all Groups, Projects, and user actions.
-        Additionally, in GitLab Entreprise Edition Premium (EEP), the
-        existing [user audit](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auditor_users.html#auditor-users) events, that were
-        previously limited to just authentication events, have been
-        expanded to include the following actions:
+        entire development cycle. In GitLab 9.3 any system administrator has
+        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
@@ -366,10 +364,10 @@ features:
         [GitLab 9.2](/2017/05/22/gitlab-9-2-released/#app-performance-feedback-on-merge-requests)
         we added the ability to see the memory impact of a merge,
         by adding a sparkline to the Merge Request page. As part of GitLab 9.3 we are taking this
-        further and now quantify the change in average memory usage for the 30 minutes before and after the merge. 
-        
+        further and now quantify the change in average memory usage for the 30 minutes before and after the merge.
+
         It is now easier than ever for developers to be cognizant of the impact they are
-        having on service performance, by getting direct feedback within the tool they already use every day. 
+        having on service performance, by getting direct feedback within the tool they already use every day.
     - name: Debian 9 Support
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep]