**More context:** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Onboarding
You
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[x] Create a Wikimedia Developer Account (an LDAP account). Follow the "VPS and General users" process here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Create_a_Wikimedia_developer_account
[x] Register in phabricator (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account_and_notifications) - use your LDAP/wikitech account (created in the previous step).
[x] Associate WMF mediawiki account with your Phabricator user account (**hack this url:** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/user/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/page/external/)
[x] Add 2factor to Phabricator login
[x] Add 2factor to wikitech login - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences
[x] Create IRC account and join channels (see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Instructions#Register_your_nickname,_identify,_and_enforce):
[X] Create IRC account and choose a "nick" (nickname) (if you don't already have one or if one is not already created for you via OIT). IRCCloud is easy: https://www.irccloud.com/
[X] Register your IRC account: `/msg nickserv register YourPassword your@email.address.com`
[x] Enforce nick protection: `/msg nickserv set enforce on`
[x] Join public IRC channels (`#wikimedia-releng`, `#wikimedia-operations`, `#wikimedia-pipeline`, `#wikimedia-cloud`, `#wikimedia-cloud-admin` )
[ ] Mailing lists:
[ ] Subscribe to ops@ mailing list (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ops)
[ ] Subscribe to qa@ (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa)
[x] Subscribe to wikitech-l@ list (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l)
[ ] Verify you are subscribed to the engineering@lists.wikimedia.org mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering
[ ] Gerrit...
[x] Log into [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org | Gerrit ]] (it uses your LDAP/Wikimedia Developer Account, aka: what you use to log into wikitech.wikimedia.org).
[ ] Follow along with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial (notably adding ssh keys)
[ ] Get access to servers:
[ ] Read and sign the Server access and responsibilities agreement https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/L3
[ ] New shell user process (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Production_shell_access#New_users) (Add to data.yaml in correct groups) - **link as subtask**
[ ] Create GPG key for use with our pwstore (if you don't have one already) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/releng-secrets/repository/master/
[ ] Add yourself to the Contact List on officewiki: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contact_list
[ ] Read the readings: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Onboarding#Readings
[ ] Have a 1:1 with everyone on the team. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Onboarding#People_to_meet_and_things_to_do_with_them
Somebody else
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[X] Add to releng@ private team list (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/releng)
[X] Add to private IRC channels (`#wikimedia-releng-team`, `#wikimedia-staff`, `#mediawiki_security`)
[ ] Add to Gerrit group: [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/groups/21,members | wmf-deployments ]]
[ ] Add to LDAP groups: wmf, releng, ciadmin - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP/Groups - **link as subtask**
[X] Add to Phabricator groups: #WMF-NDA, #trusted-contributors, #acl_releng, #acl_repository-admins, #acl_project-admins, #acl_phabricator
[X] Add to #RelEng-Kanban's sidebar
[X] Add to team Herald rule: H229
[ ] Add to #Security phabricator group: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Policy/Access_to_security_issues - **link as subtask**
[X] Add to our Cloud VPS projects - https://horizon.wikimedia.org/project/member/ (deployment-prep and integration)
[ ] Add GPG key to pwstore - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/releng-secrets/repository/master/
[X] Add to relevant Team Drives in Google Drive: [[ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0AHezJ5RWTtIZUk9PVA | RelEng ]], [[ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0AF6uUvbeFIMIUk9PVA | Pipeline ]], [[ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0AGBFN6_lJ-r5Uk9PVA | Code Health ]]