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)

source/posts/2017-06-22-gitlab-9-3-released.html.md

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-## Native group milestones
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-<!-- - Feature name: (Native) group milestones
-- Available in: CE
-- Feature weight: main
-- Documentation link:
-- Feature description, related images, and videos: -->
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-With this release, GitLab is introducing truly native support for group milestones. In the past, group milestones were actually project milestones in the background, which made sense when GitLab was mainly a project-focused collaboration platform. As we move toward solving team-focused problems, GitLab groups are becoming increasingly important, especially with our recent release of subgroups. So in this release, we are bringing native group milestones. An issue can now be assigned to either a project milestone or a group milestone. And so you can now easily see issues across multiple projects in a single milestone.
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-Will remove this line in blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30126
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 ## Confidential issues re-design
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+## Start a thread from a non-thread comment
+
+<!-- - Feature name: Start a thread from a non-thread comment
+- Available in: CE
+- Feature weight: secondary
+- Documentation link:
+- Feature description, related images, and videos: -->
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+Will remove this line in blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30299
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+----
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 ## Centralized Audit Log & Extended user audit actions
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