DJ March 2023

[xaur]

DRAFT: https://github.com/xaur/decred-news/blob/draft202303/journal/202303.md

Usage: This is a "soft" task list, some tasks may be skipped to save time. PO = Product Owner.

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

• [x] Social media stats for People
• [x] Mining stats
  • Absolute Ph/s and network share % values as reported by pools and dashboards
  • Counts of blocks actually mined in a certain timeframe
  • miningpoolstats.stream
  • or poolbay.io
  • or dcrstats.com/pow
• [x] Staking stats
  • Ticket price 30-day average
• [x] Node stats
  • Decred Mapper
• [x] VSP stats
  • rendered: decred.org/vsp
  • API: current
• [x] LN stats

Writing

• [x] Request a PR update for Outreach in advance
• [x] Harvest GitHub repos for dev updates
  • Notice new names, add them to first-time contributors in People
• [x] Complete Development
• [x] Complete People
• [x] PO review Development and People
• [x] Ask in #dev to review Development and People
• [x] Complete Governance
• [x] Complete Network
• [x] Scan Twitter for notable news
• [x] Scan Reddit for notable news
• [x] Complete Ecosystem
• [x] Complete Events
• [x] Ask #events to review Events
• [x] Scan Decred Magazine for month's posts
• [x] Scan YouTube for notable month's videos
• [x] Complete Media
• [x] Complete Outreach
• [x] Ask #marketing to review Outreach+Events+Media
• [x] Complete Markets
• [x] Complete Relevant External
• [x] Offer quoted people to review their texts
• [x] Complete Intro
• [x] PO review of all sections
• [x] Incorporate all feedback
• [x] Ensure that all people who contributed or gave feedback are in Credits
• [x] Add draft image IDs and captions
• [x] Resolve all TODOs
• [x] Final review by another editor
• [x] Add title image
• [x] Add other images
• [x] Lint
• [x] Remove {DRAFT} from title
• [x] Final grammer check

Publishing

• [x] Publish on xaur.github.io
• [x] Add images of all sizes to the files repo
• [x] Select primary mirror to broadcast (normally Decred Magazine)
• [x] Publish on Decred Magazine
  • Check ToC, formatting, images, captions
• [x] Publish on Medium
  • Upload the right images
  • Make ToC
  • Add to /decred/journals
  • Add relevant tags
  • Verify text previews on Decred and the Journals list
  • Check for formatting issues
• [x] Post on r/decred
• [x] Tweet via decredproject
  • Ensure thumbnail looks good
• [x] Announce in Matrix #dcr room
  • Add links to all mirrors
• [x] Announce on: t.me/DCRann, Blockfolio, CoinGecko, etc.
• [x] Squash gh-pages to have a single commit for the new issue
• [x] Fast-forward master to gh-pages (so that translators can get it from master)
• [x] If changes are needed after the release, add new commits to gh-pages (test in draftXX if needed), master and update other places
• [x] Submit updates to decred.org News page
  • Add new DJ to decred_journals.yml
  • Add newsworthy media links to coverage.yml
  • Add any software releases missing in software_releases.yml
  • Verify deployment at decred.org
• [x] Update index

Housekeeping

• [x] Archive draft history
  • create tmp at master, merge both drafts and the latest draft commit into tmp, fast-forward drafts to tmp, delete tmp
• [x] Update journal-template.md in the docs branch
• [x] Update release-checklist-template.md in the docs branch
• [x] Start new cycle
• [x] Delete the draft branch (will auto-close the PR)