DJ February 2021

[xaur]

DRAFT: https://github.com/xaur/decred-news/blob/draft202102/journal/202102.md

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

• [x] title image via an issue in dcrdesign (notify by: 20th, ready by: 3rd)
• [x] first time contributors
• [x] dev activity stats
• [x] 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.

• [x] social media stats
  • stats reported in People (minimum)
  • all accounts tracked by social-media-stats
  • untracked candidate accounts
  • see if any new accounts need to be tracked
• [x] Reddit mod stats
• [x] mining
  • pools' hashrate absolute Ph/s and share % values
  • https://miningpoolstats.stream/decred
  • https://dcrstats.com/pow
  • save raw data where possible
• [x] staking
  • 30-day average ticket price (dcrstats)
• [x] vspd and dcrstakepool instance stats
• [x] LN stats (LN map)
• [x] network-stats
  • update the list of known nodes and groups

Writing

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

Publishing

• [x] publish on GitHub with a single commit to gh-pages
• [x] publish on Medium
  • upload images
  • add to /decred/journals
  • add relevant tags
  • test short preview shown at /decred and /decred/journals
• [x] publish on Publish0x
  • upload images
  • add relevant tags
• [x] check mirrors for formatting issues
• [x] post on r/decred
• [x] tweet via decredproject. Don't forget to add title image. (by: 6th)
• [x] submit new issue to decred.org Press page (example)
• [x] if changes are necessary after the release, add commits to gh-pages (test in draftXX if needed) and update other places
• [x] update index
• [x] fast-forward master to gh-pages

Housekeeping

• [x] create archiving Git tag from the draft branch, e.g. archive/draft1901
• [x] delete the draft branch
• [x] (opt) update journal-template.md in docs branch
• [x] (opt) update this release-checklist-template.md in the docs branch
• [x] start new cycle

[xaur]

Thank you all for another cool release!