Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Ahmon

This is your primary onboarding document for the team. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256074

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Done Get access to your `@wikimedia.org` email (should happen before your first day).
Done IRC
- Done Follow the IRC guide on meta wiki
- Done If you choose to use IRCCloud (recommended if you are unfamiliar with IRC), get added to the Wikimedia group account by emailing techsupport@wikimedia.org with the email you used to register (your `@wikimedia.org` email).
- Done Join public IRC channels (`#wikimedia-releng`, `#wikimedia-operations`, `#wikimedia-pipeline`, `#wikimedia-cloud`, `#wikimedia-cloud-admin` ).
- Done Note the channel descriptions.
- Done Skim the full list of Wikimedia channels
- Done Private message `thcipriani` when the above is complete.
Done Mailing lists and Google Groups (descriptions of the lists)
- Done Subscribe to ops@
- Done Subscribe to wikitech-l@
- Done Verify you are subscribed to Foundation Official and tech-all Google Groups. You may need to ask for assistance from Tyler for Foundation Official, or verify with someone in Office IT when you talk to them about comms.
Done Development accounts
- Done If you do not yet have one, request a YubiKey from Office IT.
- Done Create a Wikimedia developer account (aka: "LDAP account" or "wikitech account"). Follow the "VPS and General users" process.
- Done Add 2factor to your Wikimedia developer account
- Done Generate two ssh keys. One for production and one for your Wikimedia developer account.
- Done Ensure your "~/.ssh/config" is setup correctly
- Done Add the "wmfdev" ssh public key to your Wikimedia developer account.
- Done Register in Phabricator using your Wikimedia developer account.
- Done Associate your Wikimedia wiki account (created by OIT at https://meta.wikimedia.org/) with your Phabricator user account on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/external/
- Done Add 2factor to Phabricator login at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/multifactor/
- Done Add the `wmfdev` ssh public key to Phabricator.
- Done Follow the Gerrit tutorial. Add your `wmfdev` ssh key in Gerrit.
- Done If you have a GitHub user, request access to the Release Engineering team in the Wikimedia Foundation organization.
Done Server access
- Done Request access to production servers in these groups: `deployment`, `contint-admins`, and `contint-docker`. Use your `wmfprod` ssh public key.
- Done Add that request task as a subtask to this one.
Done Shared password management
- Done Create GPG key for use with our pwstore (if you don't already have one).
  - Done https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/pgp-public-keys/+/608436
- Ask Tyler to setup a team signing party.
Done Monitoring
- Done Once added to `wmf` LDAP group, make sure you can access Logstash.
- Done Bookmark: logstash, grafana, icinga, SAL
Done Add yourself to the Contact List on officewiki.
Done Bookmark the contact List on officewiki — you'll use it a whole lot
Done Understand that you will be asked in the first team meeting (and, likely, other subsequent meetings) to "tell us a bit about yourself" and prepare mentally and emotionally for that
Done Read the readings.
Done Meet the rest of the team individually.

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Done Add to weekly team meeting as soon as the Google account is created
Done Have first day meeting with Tyler
Done Schedule weekly 1:1 with Tyler
Done Add to releng@ private team mailing list
Done Add to engprod@ private team mailing list
IRC
- Done Add to team related IRC access lists.
- Done Request addition to the other private IRC channels (#wikimedia-staff, #mediawiki_security)
Done Tyler schedules 1:1s with everyone on the team.
Done Add to relevant Team Drives in Google Drive: RelEng , Pipeline, Code Health
Done File an LDAP-Access-Requests for wmf, releng, ciadmin (link as subtask)
Done Add to RelEng's Gerrit group (which gives Administrator and wmf-deployments by inheritance)
Done Phabricator
- Done Add to Phabricator groups: #WMF-NDA, #trusted-contributors, #acl_releng, #acl_repository-admins, #acl_project-admins, #acl_phabricator
- ~~Add to the kanban board's sidebar~~
- ~~Add to kanban Herald rule: H229~~
- In progress Request addition to #Security phabricator group (link as subtask)
Done Add to our Cloud VPS projects: deployment-prep and integration
Setup a keysigning party
Add GPG key to our pwstore
Done Add to team page on mediawiki.org (team members and timezone).
Done Add to https://time.releng.team/