Release Post Retrospective 12.0

Thanks so much for participating in the 12.0 release post. Share your thoughts below on how things went, and how we can improve.

What went well?

What didn't go well?

We saw substantive additions into the release post up until the 20th, which makes review super hard.

I think @rebecca usually wrote social copy but this slipped now that she's no longer involved. We should add this as a step in the release post checklist.

The hero banner on the homepage of about.gitlab.com is manually updated in ten-oh-announcement.haml, but this wasn't in the checklist so it was missed when we merged the release post. I'll add this to the checklist for next time, but ideally this should automatically update.

It was really hard to find out what would or would not make the cutoff - I liked the suggestion, I forget who made it, to just include everything and then remove it at the last moment.

The webIDE bug made life a little painful for us newbies whose git isn't working yet from terminal/vscode

We saw substantive additions into the release post up until the 20th, which makes review super hard.

Please see Product#199 (closed) for ongoing discussion on this.

I think @rebecca usually wrote social copy but this slipped now that she's no longer involved. We should add this as a step in the release post checklist.

The hero banner on the homepage of about.gitlab.com is manually updated in ten-oh-announcement.haml, but this wasn't in the checklist so it was missed when we merged the release post. I'll add this to the checklist for next time, but ideally this should automatically update.

!24931 (merged)

How can we improve?

We need to consider changes to the release post schedule/process, since a lot of items were still being merged in on the 17th. This was the last day to make 12.0, and it made it a challenge to do content review/the intro since there was still a lot of questions around what would make it and what wouldn't.

The upgrade section doesn't support multiple blocks. See !23143 (comment 181908428).

We attempted to use the extras section, but it broke the build and we couldn't troubleshoot in time.

let's be more clear about deprecations, there are a lot, should we differentiate between upcoming, and activated?

I need to figure out the appropriate place to put guidance about what is "release post worthy" from my notes made this time with other PMs

where is the release post manager list maintained, i can find the engineer in charge but not the pm in charge?

where is the release post manager list maintained, i can find the engineer in charge but not the pm in charge?

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/managers/

mentioned in merge request !23143 (merged)

closed