Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Jaime

👋, Jaime! We're glad you're here ✨🌈

This is your entrypoint into the wonderful and weird world of Wikimedia. From here you'll learn how to navigate our labyrinth of mailing lists, tasks, wikis, servers, and tools (and meet some fellow travelers on the journey).

The expectations for this page:
 * Skim everything here within your first few days
 * Complete the 🇼 Foundation onboarding and 🧑‍💻 Technical onboarding checklists within your first week (or so)
 * Complete the 🐃 RelEng checklist within your first few weeks (or so)
 * Skim the readings and bookmarks within your first month (or so)

There's no quiz or anything — the hope is that these checklists make navigating our shared world a little easier.



If you're stuck

 * Search all the wikis: officewiki, Wikitech, and this wiki.
 * Search Phabricator
 * Ask your onboarding Buddy, User:Hashar
 * Ask your manager, User:TCipriani_(WMF)
 * Ask IT Services (formerly OIT) for technical services help, by emailing [mailto:techsupport@wikimedia.org techsupport@wikimedia.org]
 * For general Foundation questions, you have options:
 * Slack (in order of descending preference),  ,  ,
 * IRC, in