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.

• [x] title image (notify by: 20th, ready by: 3rd)
• [x] first time contributors
• [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
  • 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
• [x] Medium and Publish0x post stats
• [x] Reddit traffic stats
• [x] mining
  • pool hashrate absolute Ph/s and share % values
  • miningpoolstats.stream
  • dcrstats.com/pow
  • luxor.tech API
  • save raw data where possible (JSON etc)
• [x] staking
  • ticket price 30-day average
• [x] network stats
  • nodes at Decred Mapper
  • nodes at dcrextdata
  • update the list of known nodes and groups
• [x] vspd and dcrstakepool instance stats
• [x] LN stats

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 Ecosystem
• [x] (opt) find interesting Reddit and Twitter threads
• [x] complete 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] add all images to the files repo
• [x] 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
• [x] publish on Publish0x
  • upload images
  • add relevant tags
  • check for formatting issues
• [x] post on r/decred
• [x] tweet via decredproject
  • add title image
• [x] add new issue to decred.org Press page (coverage.yml)
  • verify deployment
• [x] if changes are necessary after the release, add commits to gh-pages (test in draftXX if needed) and update other places
• [x] announce on: Matrix #dcr, t.me/DCRann, Blockfolio, CoinGecko, LinkedIn
• [x] update index
• [x] fast-forward master to gh-pages

Housekeeping

• [x] archive draft history
  • create tmp at master, merge both drafts and the latest draft commit, fast-forward drafts to tmp
• [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
• [x] delete the draft branch (will auto-close the PR)