<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="chap-contributing">
  <title>Contributing to this manual</title>
  <para>
    The DocBook and CommonMark sources of NixOS’ manual are in the
    <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos/doc/manual">nixos/doc/manual</link>
    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>
  <programlisting>
$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs
$ ./nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh
$ nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux
</programlisting>
  <para>
    If the build succeeds, the manual will be in
    <literal>./result/share/doc/nixos/index.html</literal>.
  </para>
</chapter>
