Release team engineer onboarding - Ali Ladhani

Welcome to the Release team! This issue is intended to be a companion to your Gitlab onboarding issue, and to help you get familiar with your specific product group. This is your issue, so feel free to make changes, add comments, or keep track of anything you want to review with your manager.

Your onboarding buddy is @vshushlin

Tasks for the Buddy

• Complete buddy tasks in the team member onboarding issue - N/A
• Add your new teammate to the recurring team meetings
• Add your new teammate to the Release team Calendar
• Add your new teammate to the relevant Slack channels

Your Onboarding Tasks

This list is not exhaustive, and the onboarding buddy is encouraged to add any missing information (or either the engineer or buddy can open MRs directly in the handbook!)

Get Familiar with the Release Stage

• Read over the Release Team Handbook page and planning page
• Watch the Product Update video on Deployments - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w6FGoSiRl0
• Read and familiarize yourself with the Deployment Direction page
• Review product documentation for Release feature categories Note: Feature flags and Gitlab Pages aren't currently a focus for our team, so you can choose to review those later.
• Get familiar with some of our upcoming features

• gitlab-org&6832
• gitlab-org&6938 (closed)

Working Asynchronously

• Watch Bias toward Async training with Sid
• Read When to use Async and Sync Communication
• Read Reduce Reliance on Slack
• Read Understanding Low context communication

We use the following issues/boards to work asynchronously throughout the milestone, it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with each of these.

• Review Build board
• Review 14.5 planning issue
• Review 14.5 needs weight issue

Meet some team members

• Schedule a coffee chat with the team:
  • Shinya Maeda (BE)
  • Vlad Shushlin (BE)
  • Andrew Fontaine (FE)
  • Allen Cook (BE)
  • Daniel Fosco (UX)
  • Chris Balane (PM)

Getting started

• Assign yourself to the issue linked here, and complete them at your own pace:
• gitlab-org/gitlab#208397 (closed)
• gitlab-org/gitlab#36047
• gitlab-org/gitlab#38273