Onboarding Checklist

Welcome to the Habitat team!

Github

• Get an invite from a team member to join the habitat-core-maintainers team in the Habitat Github org
• Update MAINTAINERS.md for habitat, builder and core-plans repos

Communication

Slack

• Create account on Habitat Community Slack: http://slack.habitat.sh/
• Get invite from a team member to join any necessary private channels
• Join #general #core-dev #notifications #documentation
• Get added to @core-maintainers list

E-Mail

• Get added to [email protected] mailing list.

Calendar Events

Have a team member invite you to the following recurring events:

• Habitat Standup (Daily)
• Habitat Demo (Weekly)
• Habitat Retro (Fortnightly)

Shared Secrets

Habitat uses 1password for shared secrets management.

• Have a team member invite you to 1password.
• Setup 1password.

Project Tracking and Issue Tracking

The Habitat team performs all their development in the open to help promote and encourage a thriving and health community. The JIRA project for habitat is no longer active and should not be used.

• Habitat Project Tacking / Kanban Board (Login via GitHub and authorize ZenHub app)

On Call

• Read On Call Engineering Duties, Incidents and Troubleshooting Builder Services
• Get set up with access to production services
• Set up PagerDuty account (notifications and calendars)

Books & Documentation

Required Reading

• Read the CONTRIBUTING.md
• Read the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Recommended

• Habitat Tutorial
• Habitat Documentation
• Habitat Brown Bag Sessions (videos)
• Builder Architecture Overview (video)
• The Rust Programming Language eBook

Rust Resources

• excercism.io tutorials
• Rust Playground
• Rust Forum
• Official #rust-beginners IRC Channel (via irccloud)
• Official #rust IRC Channel (via irccloud)