Contributor spotlight: Steven Spencer

Key points

Rocky Linux's contributor spotlight profiles Steven Spencer of the Documentation team, in an interview about how he came to the project and what he works on.

Who he is

• A retired network and systems administrator from Grand Island, Nebraska, who joined the project in January 2021, right after retiring.
• He wanted to keep his technical mind active, and Rocky Linux needed help with documentation, which he had written a great deal of in his career.

What he does

• Creates content, edits submissions and merges them, aiming for a consistent voice and tone across the documentation. He also follows the community forums.
• The contribution he is proudest of is a "book" on LXD on docs.rockylinux.org, later moved to Incus when LXD's main developers shifted their work there. He uses Incus daily.

Documentation consolidation

• His main concern is the effort to bring all project documentation under docs.rockylinux.org, which he says the project badly needs. He asks other contributors and teams to take part.
• The Testing team was the first to move its documentation there.

Advice to new contributors

• When he started he had never used git, GitHub or Markdown and now uses them daily. His message: there are people in the project who will help, so do not feel intimidated and jump right in.

Acknowledgements

• He thanks Ezequiel Bruni, Antoine Le Morvan, Anna Zhyrnova and the Documentation team lead, Wale Soyinka.

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