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Wikimedia Cloud Services team/Onboarding Slavina

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New hire/onboarding plan for Slavina Stefanova as SRE in the Wikimedia Cloud Services team.

Checklist: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Onboarding/Checklists/SlavinaStefanova

Who to ask for help

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  • Nicholas Skaggs - Manager - Eastern Standard Time (UTC-6)
  • David Caro - 'Buddy' - Central European Standard Time (UTC+1)

Onboarders References

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Onboardee Reference

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First tasks

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Here is a list of the first few tasks that might be interesting:

  • Work with Bryan to create developer documentation for Toolhub

30/60/90 Breakdowns

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Week 1

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Objective
Meet everyone online and get setup.
Start to learn about Cloud VPS, Toolforge, and team
  • Day 1 (Getting settled in)
    • Ask questions about any and all of this. There is a long tailed setup process and lots of accounts. We made a Phabricator task to keep track of gaining all the permissions. The first week will be chaotic. Don't worry.
    • Join #wikimedia-cloud-admin connect, #wikimedia-cloud connect, and #wikimedia-operations connect channels
    • Login to your wikimedia.org email and make sure it works
    • Login to https://office.wikimedia.org/, look around, and make yourself a User page.
    • Add yourself to the internal contact list.
    • Login to metawiki and make yourself a User page.
    • Login to MediaWiki wiki and either make yourself a User page or let Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage show people your user page from metawiki.
    • Create a Wikitech/LDAP account
      • The "Toolforge users" workflow is probably the easiest to follow.
      • Use your @wikimedia.org email address.
      • Your shell account name will be the same in Cloud VPS, Toolforge, and WMF production so choose wisely.
      • You can use an existing ssh key or make a new one as you like (privileged keys will be made later).
    • Login to wikitech with your new account and make a User page for yourself.
    • Create a Phabricator account by logging in with your Wikitech/LDAP account.
    • Link your Phabricator account to your staff wiki account too (Settings > External accounts).
    • Login to Gerrit and add an ssh key so you can upload patches
    • Get an IRC cloak (or at least start to get one) and join #mediawiki_security ("op yourself and add them via /mode #mediawiki_security +I <nick>!*@* ")
    • Read the wiki and other docs
  • Day 2
    • Sync up with Buddy
  • Day 4
    • Sync up with Buddy
    • Create a welcome email to send to tech-all and post in slack (Manager will help create)
  • Day 5
    • You made it through week 1!
    • Learn about gerrit, checkout puppet repository, review a team patch
    • Followup on onboarding requests and enjoy a "Silent Friday"


Misc:

  • Add the Technical Engagement team calendar to your calendar app
  • Get in all IRC channels
  • Cloud root
  • Create prod root key changeset for week next SRE meeting
  • Add 'cteam' for IRC ping
  • Register in gerrit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org
  • Review open tasks in Phabricator's #cloud-services

Week 2

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Objectives

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  • Follow-up on your pending access requests
  • Ask for some potential clinic-duty tasks, and learn more about clinic duty process
  • Meet with your buddy and setup a cadence
  • Attend WMCS weekly status meeting
  • Learn about Quarterly Goals

Week 3

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Objectives

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  • Experiment with WMCS services -- sign up for and use toolforge, cloud VPS, quarry, PAWS, dumps, wiki replicas
  • Add your photo and other details to office wiki
  • Update team pages to include you! :-)

Week 4

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Objectives

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  • Try working with phabricator tasks, see list above for a selection.
  • Signup for clinic duty
  • Meet Developer Advocacy Team
  • Learn more about the community we serve

Second Month

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Objectives

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  • Attend first SRE meeting
  • Learn more about Tech Department structure
  • Continue Buddy check-ins
  • Help team finish Quarterly goals!

Third Month

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Objectives

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  • Participate in Quarterly Planning
  • Be ready for new OKR's
  • Participate in your first ITC
  • Learn more about wider organizational structure