This is your primary onboarding document for the team.

You

• Get access to your @wikimedia.org email (should happen before your first day).
• IRC
  • Follow the IRC guide on meta wiki
  • If you choose to use IRCCloud (recommended if you are unfamiliar with IRC), get added to the Wikimedia group account by emailing techsuppport@wikimedia.org with the email you used to register (your @wikimedia.org email).
  • Join public IRC channels (#wikimedia-releng, #wikimedia-operations, #wikimedia-pipeline, #wikimedia-cloud, #wikimedia-cloud-admin ).
  • Note the channel descriptions.
  • Private message greg-g when the above is complete.
• Mailing lists (descriptions of the lists)
  • Subscribe to ops@
  • Subscribe to qa@
  • Subscribe to wikitech-l@
  • Verify you are subscribed to engineering@
• Development accounts
  • Create a Wikimedia developer account (aka: "LDAP account" or "wikitech account"). Follow the "VPS and General users" process.
  • Add 2factor to your Wikimedia developer account
  • Generate two ssh keys. One for production and one for your Wikimedia developer account.
  • [[ https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-openstack | Add the wmfdev ssh public key ]] to your Wikimedia developer account.
  • Register in Phabricator using your Wikimedia developer account.
  • Associate your Wikimedia wiki account (created by OIT at https://meta.wikimedia.org/) with your Phabricator user account (hack this url: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/user/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/page/external/)
    • Note: I think I got this right, did it in the opposite order.
  • Add 2factor to Phabricator login.
  • Add the wmfdev ssh public key to Phabricator.
  • Follow the Gerrit tutorial. Add your wmfdev ssh key in Gerrit.
• Server access
  • Request access to production servers in these groups: deployment, contint-admins, and contint-docker. Use your wmfprod ssh public key.
  • Add that request task a subtask to this one.
• Shared password management
  • Create GPG key for use with our pwstore (if you don't already have one).
  • Ask Greg to setup a team signing party.
• Add yourself to the Contact List on officewiki:
• Read the readings
• Meet the rest of the team individually.

Somebody else (default: Greg)

• Add to weekly team meeting as soon as the Google account is created
• Have first day meeting with Greg
• Schedule weekly 1:1 with Greg
• Add to releng@ private team mailing list
• IRC
  • Add to team relate IRC access lists.
  • Request addition to the other private IRC channels (#wikimedia-staff, #mediawiki_security)
• Greg schedules 1:1s with everyone on the team.
• Add to relevant Team Drives in Google Drive: RelEng, Pipeline, Code Health
• File an LDAP-Access-Requests for wmf, releng, ciadmin (link as subtask)
• Add to RelEng's Gerrit group (which gives Administrator and wmf-deployments by inheritance)
• Phabricator
  • 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
  • Request addition to #Security phabricator group (link as subtask)
• Add to our Cloud VPS projects: deployment-prep and integration
• Setup a keysigning party
• Add GPG key to our pwstore
• Add to team page on mediawiki.org (team members and timezone).

Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Onboarding