Wikimedia Cloud Services team/Onboarding Arturo

New hire/onboarding plan for Arturo Borrero González as Operations Engineer in the Wikimedia Cloud Services team.

Who to ask for help

• Bryan - Manager - chief problem solver
• Chase - Mentoring - orientation to projects
• Madhu - 'Buddy' - formally assigned person to answer non-goal and work product questions. "Where are the bathrooms?"

Onboarders References

• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Administration/Team_guide/Onboarding_for_your_team
  • Note Bryan you need to look at this at least 2 days before start
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Onboarding_and_Offboarding
  • Note Bryan you need to look at this at least a week before start date
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Onboarding
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_IT/On(Off)boarding
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operations/On(Off)boarding

Onboardee Reference

• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Guide_for_new_hires
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Guide_for_new_engineering_staff
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Hire_Orientation_Videos
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Staff_Resources/Employees
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operations/On(Off)boarding
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contact_list
• foundation:Staff and contractors
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks

Weekly Breakdowns

Oct 23 - Oct 27

(Arturo working 10:00Z to 18:00Z (12:00-20:00 local time) to maximize overlap with the rest of the team.)

Objective

Meet everyone (online) and get setup.

Start to learn about Toolforge

• Day 0
  • 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
  • Read lots of docs :)

• Day 1
  • Sync up with Chase
  • Go to team meeting
  • Read lots of docs :)
  • Ask questions!

• Day 2
  • Read lots of docs :)
  • Ask questions!

• Day 3
  • Sync up with Chase
  • Read lots of docs :)
  • Ask questions!

• Day 4
• Read lots of docs :)
  • Ask questions!

Misc:

• Add the Cloud Services team calendar to your calendar app
• Get in all IRC channels
• Cloud root
• Tools admin
• Create prod root key changeset for week 2 ops meeting

[addendums]

• Add 'cteam' for IRC ping
• register in phabricator
• registery in gerrit
• Review open tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/cloud-services/

Oct 30 - Nov 3

(Arturo working 10:00Z to 18:00Z (12:00-20:00 local time) to maximize overlap with the rest of the team.)

Objective

Meet everyone (online) and get setup (part 2)

• Sync up with Chase on Tuesday
• Go to team meeting on Tuesday

Nov 6 - Nov 10

(Chase and Andrew are at OpenStack Sydney)

Objective

Shadow clinic-duty person and followup on tasks from week 1 and week 2

Nov 13 - Nov 17

(Chase back on the 13th)

Objective

Shadow Chase for context in ongoing Neutron and general environment. Small tasks and status review.

Nov 20 - Nov 24

Objective

Shadow Chase for context in ongoing Neutron and general environment. Small tasks and status review.

Nov 27 - Dec 1

Objective

Shadow Chase for context in ongoing Neutron and general environment. Small tasks and status review.

Dec 4 - Dec 8

Objective

In Person meetings, sync up, Kubecon. Eats. Handshakes and possible hugs (not required).

Dec 11 - Dec 15

Objective

Shadow clinic-duty person.

Dec 18 - Dec 22

Objective

Shadow clinic-duty person.

Dec 25 - Dec 29

Objective

Winter break!

Jan 1 - Jan 5

(Arturo working 09:00-17:00 UTC (10:00-18:00 local time) for better work/life balance.)

Objective

Shadow clinic-duty person.

Jan 8 - Jan 12

Objective

Shadow clinic-duty person.