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Instead of putting a README in the directory where the manual is written, put the information from it straight in the docs themselves. It's a bit untrivial to guess the manual is located exactly there for contributers.
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xml:id="chap-contributing">
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<title>Contributing to this documentation</title>
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<para>
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The DocBook sources of NixOS' manual are in the <filename
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos/doc/manual">
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nixos/doc/manual</filename> subdirectory of the <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs">Nixpkgs</link> repository.
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</para>
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<para>
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You can quickly check your edits with the following:
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</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>$ </prompt>cd /path/to/nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual
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<prompt>$ </prompt>nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux
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</screen>
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<para>
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If the build succeeds, the manual will be in
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<filename>./result/share/doc/nixos/index.html</filename>.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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