GitLab 9.4 release post

Review Apps link: https://release-9-4.about.gitlab.com/2017/07/22/gitlab-9-4-released/

Items link: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/release-9-4/data/release_posts/2017_07_22_gitlab_9_4_released.yml
Intro link: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/release-9-4/source/posts/2017-07-22-gitlab-9-4-released.html.md

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: 07/16 (6th working day before the 22nd)

• Label MR: blog post release
• Add milestone
• Intro
• MVP
• Add cover image image_title (compressed)
• Upgrade barometer
• Top feature
• Performance improvements
• Omnibus improvements
• Deprecations
• Documentation links
• Add features to data/features.yml
• Authorship (author's data)

Features

PMs: please check your box only when all your features and deprecations were added with completion (documentation links, images, etc). Pls don't check your item if there are still things missing.

• Fabio - CI/CD
• Victor - Discussion
• Mark - I2P
• Mike - Platform
• Joshua- Monitoring
• Stan - Geo
• Job - Edge

Tip: make your own checklist:

• Primary features
• Improvements (secondary features)
• Deprecations
• Documentation links
• Illustrations
• Update features.yml

Review

Content review (PMs)

Due date: 07/20 (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 (tech writers, content marketing)
  • Title
  • Description
  • Grammar, spelling, clearness (body)
• Marketing review (Amara)
• Final review (Job)

Structural Check

Due date: 07/20 (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_07_22_gitlab_9_4_released.yml

@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ features:
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep] # required
       documentation_link:  # webpage or documentation - optional
       description: | # supports markdown
-        Lorem ipsum [dolor sit amet](#link), consectetur adipisicing elit.
-        Perferendis nisi vitae quod ipsum saepe cumque quia `veritatis`.
+        1. nginx has been updated to the next stable version, 1.12
+        1. Debian 9 and openSUSE 42.2 are now officially supported
     - name: Performance Improvements
       available_in: [ce, ees, eep] # required
@@ -247,8 +247,7 @@ barometer:
 # DEPRECATIONS (optional)
 # include as many deprecation blocks as necessary
 deprecations:
-  - feature_name: Lorem ipsum dolor
+  - feature_name: openSUSE 42.1 is no longer supported
     due: July 22nd, 2017. # example
     description: |  # example (supports markdown)
-      Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
-      Veritatis, quisquam.
+      As the openSUSE community has ended support for version 42.1, GitLab has ended support as well. Please upgrade to OpenSUSE 42.2 which is now officially supported.