Technical contributor onboarding

The goal of this page is to have the smallest possible list of things to make somebody new to Wikimedia productive. (A volunteer, an intern, a new hire...)

Getting Started

Simple tutorials to get you started.

• Create accounts.
• Follow the documentation at Gerrit/Tutorial to set up your machine to be able to push commits to Gerrit.
• Create a very small commit to test if your can push to Gerrit. You can work on phab:T254495 or any task from phab:tag/good_first_task. It is important to follow Gerrit/Commit message guidelines.
• Amend a commit. See phab:T249323.
  • To amend commits created by others, you have to be added to Trusted-Contributors group in Gerrit. See phab:T249413.
• For Continuous integration to run automatically, you have to be added to trusted users in zuul/layout.yaml file of integration/config repository. See gerrit:585884.

How-to

Various How-tos.

• Resolve merge conflict

Reference

References.

• Gerrit/Commit message guidelines
• Google's Code Review Developer Guide
• "There isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four"
• New Developers
• How to become a MediaWiki hacker
• Good first task