Documenting the manual: how curiosity and robotic arms led to a career in open source

Alejandro Colomar's path to maintaining Linux Kernel man-pages began when he needed nanosecond-precision socket timestamps for a robotic arm project and found the relevant kernel feature undocumented. Rather than moving on, he wrote a patch — 120 lines of commit message for 25 lines of docs — and never stopped. Google sponsors his ongoing work on the Linux man-pages project, viewing open source maintenance as a core responsibility for any organization that depends on the ecosystem.