In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org

So I'm factoring out a repeatedly used type into types.nix here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/375975/files#diff-64168148acd9f2147ef733b1498b8821c24f2e3f32354b0e147dd421d71274f3R1165-R1171

Does this need to be documented in option-types.section.md? And if so, under which section does it seem appropriate?

In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org
(apologies if this room isn't about nixpkgs/nixos docs; I wasn't sure)

In reply to @maryjane_:matrix.org
Hello everyone, my name is MARYJANE an outreachy applicant for the june 2025 cohorts and i would like to contribute to this commnunity.

Hi Ndukauba Maryjane Oluchi!

Here’s a very basic thing: You could start out small and try to build the NixOS manual on your machine following the instructions. Those instructions have a leftover from when the mechanism was different and still say “you can quickly validate your edits with make”, but we’re not using makeany more. The example shows a shell prompt that doesn’t look like the actual thing: nix-shell$ instead of [nix-shell:~]$. In other places the formatting of parameter lists follows one format most of the time, but sometimes it’s different.

There are lots of such little inconsistencies, and carefully fixing any of them so the text doesn’t confuse readers is a valuable contribution!

Yeah the types.nix documentation is not not yet generated from source directly.
We'd like to move the types and all other module system documentation out of the nixos manual, and put it into the reference documentation of nixpkgs instead.

Ndukauba Maryjane Oluchi That would be something. Its basically just moving things.

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Hi fricklerhandwerk i am currently working on this issue.
what do I Document in place of ' make ' ?