Wikimedia Cloud Services team/Onboarding Arturo
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New hire/onboarding plan for Arturo Borrero González as Operations Engineer in the Wikimedia Cloud Services team.
Who to ask for help
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
- foundation:Staff and contractors
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks
Weekly Breakdowns
editOct 23 - Oct 27
edit(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 #wikimedia-cloud-admin connect, #wikimedia-cloud connect, and #wikimedia-operations connect 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 (
Settings > External accounts
). - 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
edit(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
edit(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
edit(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
edit- Objective
- Shadow Chase for context in ongoing Neutron and general environment. Small tasks and status review.
Nov 27 - Dec 1
edit- Objective
- Shadow Chase for context in ongoing Neutron and general environment. Small tasks and status review.
Dec 4 - Dec 8
edit- Objective
- In Person meetings, sync up, Kubecon. Eats. Handshakes and possible hugs (not required).
Dec 11 - Dec 15
edit- Objective
- Shadow clinic-duty person.
Dec 18 - Dec 22
edit- Objective
- Shadow clinic-duty person.
Dec 25 - Dec 29
edit- Objective
- Winter break!
Jan 1 - Jan 5
edit(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
edit- Objective
- Shadow clinic-duty person.