Wikimedia Cloud Services team/Onboarding Slavina

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T295404

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

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

Onboarders References

• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Administration/Team_guide/Onboarding_for_your_team
• https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Onboarding_and_Offboarding
• 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/Technology/Onboarding/Checklists/HPham
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Engagement
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Engagement/Team_Social_Norms
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Cloud_Services_team
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Cloud_Services_team/Team_work_board_practices
• 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
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:ABorrero_(WMF)/Notes/Onboarding_notes
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_extended_HR_video.ogv

First tasks

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

Week 1

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 3
  • Read through https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Engagement/Onboarding

• 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
  • Tools admin
• 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

Objectives

• 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

Objectives

• 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

Objectives

• 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

Objectives

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

Third Month

Objectives

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