<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="chap-contributing"> <title>Contributing to this documentation</title> <para> The DocBook sources of NixOS' manual are in the <filename xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos/doc/manual"> nixos/doc/manual</filename> subdirectory of the <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs">Nixpkgs</link> repository. </para> <para> You can quickly check your edits with the following: </para> <screen> <prompt>$ </prompt>cd /path/to/nixpkgs <prompt>$ </prompt>nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux </screen> <para> If the build succeeds, the manual will be in <filename>./result/share/doc/nixos/index.html</filename>. </para> </chapter>