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
 * Staff and contractors
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks

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, , and 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.
 * 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.