Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Next
If you've made it here through the twisty maze of onboarding documentation: đcongratulations!
If you're reading this, it must mean you're bleary eyed from all the wiki editing and you're ready to do some technical tasks. Fortunately, your fellow relengers have made you a list of small tasks to get started: RelEng (đ Onboarding)
The RelEng (đ Onboarding) milestone in phabricator is a list of tasks that should be:
- Applicable to your new job
- Small enough to be completed in a week or so
- Someone thought they knew how to do it (at least in a vague way), so you should have help
- Check in with Tyler or your onboarding buddy to help track down the right person to help with this task
Tips
[edit]- Don't get stuck for too long. If you spend too much time stuck talk to Tyler or your onboarding buddy.
- Don't be afraid to ask a lot of questions. Being willing to look like you don't know what's going on in public is one of the best ways to get things done here.
- Dabble. Don't get stuck on a task that's a slog, find something you like, try a few on for size before deciding to claim the task.
- Claim the task when you start work in earnest. At the bottom of each task is a comment field. Use the Add Action... drop-down in the comment field to Assign/Claim the task and click Submit: congratulationsâyou're the proud assignee of a task.