# Gitaly Team specific onboarding

Welcome to [Gitaly Team](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/enablement/systems/gitaly/)!!

The following items are the team-specific extension of your onboarding issue.
Please complete all but the "Reading material" section in your first few working days.

- Join Slack channels:
  - [ ] [#gitaly-lounge](https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/gitaly-lounge) (internal team affairs, generic informal chat)
  - [ ] [#g_gitaly](https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/g_gitaly) (important communication also outside the team)
  - [ ] [#git-core](https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/git-core) (conversations re git itself)
  - [ ] [#s_enablement](https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/s_enablement) (section-wide communication)
  - [ ] [#gitaly-alerts](https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/gitaly-alerts) (Alerts for gitaly releases and failures)
- Ask your manager or your mentor in order to:
  - [ ] get Maintainer access to the [@gl-gitaly](https://gitlab.com/groups/gl-gitaly/-/group_members) group
  - [ ] be added to the weekly team meeting and [meeting notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k1hY0ZdeFUnSqF6GUToFaJEtVIN_SjWeaRdx1V0i25E/edit)
  - [ ] be added to [Geekbot](https://app.geekbot.com/dashboard) for daily Slack standup updates
- Open issues / Access Requests to:
  - [ ] join the @gitalyteam Slack group ([example](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/team-member-epics/access-requests/-/issues/15868))
  - [ ] get access to [Stackdriver](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/monitoring/#go-services)
  - [ ] join the `gcp-host-profiles-sg@gitlab.com` GCP group for access to [periodic profiling data](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/scalability/-/issues/1433#note_901717231)
  - [ ] request access to [Zendesk](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/support/internal-support/#requesting-a-zendesk-light-agent-account)
  - [ ] create [RubyGems.org](https://rubygems.org/sign_up) account and request access to `gitaly` gem
- If transferring from another team within GitLab:
  - [ ] update your [Team page entry](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/git-page-update/#12-add-yourself-to-the-team-page)
  - [ ] update your Slack profile ("What I do")
  - [ ] update your Zoom title
- Reading material
  - [ ] check out the [README](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/blob/master/README.md) at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly, without getting lost in too much detail
    - [ ] watch video [presentations](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/blob/master/README.md#presentations) linked in README
  - [ ] checkout the Gitaly doc [README](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/blob/master/doc/README.md)
  - [ ] get familiar with how we [schedule work](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/issues/4095) and possibly bookmark the [Gitaly ongoing work issue board](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/boards/1140874?label_name%5B%5D=group%3A%3Agitaly&milestone_title=Upcoming)
  - [ ] familiarize yourself with the [Merge request workflow](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/contributing/merge_request_workflow.html) specific to working _on_ GitLab (the whole page)
  - [ ] check out the [team page](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/enablement/systems/gitaly/)

/confidential
/assign me
/cc @andrashorvath
