Analytics/Onboarding

=Background= You will need lots of accounts, memberships and other secret keys to become a real productive member of the Analytics team. Here's an overview of things you should do in the first week.

=Servers= All Analytics team-members should have access requested to the following machines: Talk with Andrew Otto about how to submit your private key
 * stat1
 * stat1001
 * stat1002
 * bast1001.wikimedia.org
 * bastion.wmflabs.org
 * Hadoop cluster

=RT=
 * 1) Ask mutante (Daniel Zahn) on #wikimedia-operations for instructions to request RT account

=Mediawiki=
 * 1) Create account: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Analytics&type=signup
 * 2) Log in

=Labs=
 * 1) Create account: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main+Page
 * 2) Log in
 * 3) Upload your public SSH key: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-openstack

=Gerrit=
 * 1) Log in to Gerrit using your Labs credentials.
 * 2) To verify everything works, clone a repo repo from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/?filter=analytics using SSH.

=Mailinglists=
 * Please subscribe to:
 * 1) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
 * 2) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics
 * 3) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfresearch
 * Please request acces to:
 * 1) Analytics internal (email Diederik)
 * 2) Operations (email Diederik)
 * 3) Engineering (email Diederik)

For an overview of all available mailinglists see https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

=Bugzilla=
 * 1) Create an account at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
 * 2) Email [mailto:aklapper@wikimedia.org Andre Klapper] and ask to be CC'ed by default for components that you will be involved with. Frontend engineers: Limn, Wikimetrics. Backend engineers: ask Diederik

=IRC=
 * 1) Install an IRC client -- ask team members for recommendations ( some would be quassel, irssi, pidgin, xchat, or adium if you're on a Mac )
 * 2) Follow instructions on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks to request an IRC cloack
 * 3) Connect to #wikimedia-analytics on Freenode

=Google Calendar=
 * 1) Add the Analytics Team Calendar to your default view.

=Mingle=
 * 1) Ask Diederik for instructions on how to create a Mingle account

=Gingle= Install Gingle. We use that for adding git commits to our Mingle cards.

=Equipment=

As far as equipment goes you will need a good development machine.

Minimum machine specs:


 * >=4GB RAM
 * i7 >= 2.4 Ghz quad-core or better
 * 300GB disk

Recommended machine specs:


 * >=8GB RAM
 * i7 >= 2.4 Ghz quad-core or better
 * SSD (if you're going to be working on wikimetrics)
 * 300GB disk

At first sight you might think these are not required, but you will have to run VMs, you will be using vagrant to re-create various environments(sometimes with multiple nodes), so you will need some hardware for that.

Headset
Please buy a high-quality headset -- your colleagues will love you for this. For more tips see https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_IT/Projects/Telepresence

=Optional accounts=

You could consider creating accounts for:
 * GitHub

=Operating System=

The machines we deploy on are using Ubuntu and it would be more convenient for you to have a Ubuntu installed on your development machine or any other UNIX based operating system.