Wikimedia Cloud Services team/Onboarding David

New hire/onboarding plan for David Caro as SRE in the Wikimedia Cloud Services team.

Who to ask for help

 * Nicholas - Manager - Eastern Timezone (UTC-6)
 * Arturo - Mentoring - Central European Timezone (UTC+2)
 * Andrew - 'Buddy' - Central Timezone (UTC-7)

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 to David:


 * Phabricator T267082: Rebuild Toolforge servers that should not have NFS mounted
 * Phabricator T265957: Upgrade the singleuser image for PAWS to a version that provides python 3.7+
 * Phabricator T267195: CloudVPS: improve VM backups to make them redundant and discoverable
 * Phabricator T265965: Ceph dev cluster in codfw1dev
 * Phabricator T267194: CloudVPS: enable TLS in openstack API endpoints

November 2 - November 6

 * 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.
 * (done) Join, , and channels
 * (done) Login to your wikimedia.org email and make sure it works
 * (done) Login to https://office.wikimedia.org/, look around, and make yourself a User page.
 * (done) Add yourself to the internal contact list.
 * (done) Login to metawiki and make yourself a User page.
 * (done) Login to MediaWiki wiki and either make yourself a User page or let Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage show people your user page from metawiki.
 * (done) 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).
 * (done) Login to wikitech with your new account and make a User page for yourself.
 * (done) Create a Phabricator account by logging in with your Wikitech/LDAP account.
 * (done) Link your Phabricator account to your staff wiki account too.
 * (done) Login to Gerrit and add an ssh key so you can upload patches
 * (in progress) 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 !*@* ")
 * Read the wiki and other docs


 * Day 2
 * (done) Sync up with Arturo


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


 * Day 4
 * Sync up with Arturo
 * Create a welcome email to send to tech-all and post in slack (Nicholas 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

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 Q2 Goals
 * Enjoy a company-wide holiday from November 11 - November 13 to setup for a long weekend

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! :-)

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

Objectives

 * Attend first SRE meeting
 * Learn more about Tech Department structure
 * Continue Buddy check-ins
 * Help team finish Q2 goals!

Objectives

 * Participate in Q3 Planning
 * Be ready for new OKR's
 * Participate in your first ITC
 * Learn more about wider organizational structure