DJ June 2021

[xaur]

DRAFT: https://github.com/xaur/decred-news/blob/draft202106/journal/202106.md

Dependencies: Send notice in advance so that people can plan their work.

• title image (notify by: 20th, ready by: 3rd)
• first time contributors
• PR update (notify by: 28th, ready by: 3rd)

Monthly snapshots: Snapshot data that is hard to obtain later. Aim to capture it at 1st day of the month at 00:00 UTC.

• social media stats
  • accs reported in People ("key" list)
  • all accs in social-media-stats
  • untracked candidate accounts ("maybe" list)
  • see if any new accounts need to be tracked
• Medium and Publish0x post stats
• Reddit traffic stats
• mining
  • pool hashrate absolute Ph/s and share % values
  • miningpoolstats.stream
  • dcrstats.com/pow
  • luxor.tech API
  • save raw data where possible (JSON etc)
• staking
  • ticket price 30-day average
• network stats
  • nodes at Decred Mapper
  • nodes at dcrextdata
  • update the list of known nodes and groups
• vspd and dcrstakepool instance stats
• LN stats

Writing

• extract more dev updates from GitHub repos
• complete Development (by: 2nd)
• complete People (by: 2nd)
• PO review Development and People
• ask in #dev to review Development and People
• complete Events
• (opt) ask #events to review Events
• complete Outreach
• complete Media
• (opt) ask #marketing to review Outreach+Events+Media
• complete Governance
• complete Network
• complete Ecosystem
• (opt) find interesting Reddit and Twitter threads
• complete Discussions
• complete Markets
• complete Relevant External
• (opt) ask quoted people to review their texts
• complete Intro
• PO review of all sections
• (opt) ask #writers to review (by: 3rd)
• incorporate all feedback
• resolve all TODOs
• ensure that all people who contributed or gave feedback are in credits
• lint
• add title image
• remove {DRAFT} from title
• pre-release review: check spelling, grammar, test that links work

Publishing

• publish on GitHub with a single commit to gh-pages
• add all images to the files repo
• publish on Medium
  • upload images
  • make Table of Contents
  • add to /decred/journals
  • add relevant tags
  • verify text previews shown at /decred and /decred/journals
  • check for formatting issues
• publish on Publish0x
  • upload images
  • add relevant tags
  • check for formatting issues
• post on r/decred
• tweet via decredproject
  • add title image
• add new issue to decred.org Press page (coverage.yml)
  • verify deployment
• if changes are necessary after the release, add commits to gh-pages (test in draftXX if needed) and update other places
• announce on: Matrix #dcr, t.me/DCRann, Blockfolio, CoinGecko, LinkedIn
• update index
• fast-forward master to gh-pages

Housekeeping

• archive draft history
  • create tmp at master, merge both drafts and the latest draft commit, fast-forward drafts to tmp
• (opt) update journal-template.md in docs branch
• (opt) update this release-checklist-template.md in the docs branch
• start new cycle
• delete the draft branch (will auto-close the PR)