From a5a2603b8d1e2f4527ceebab9b8f69e9c89eac78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Dean <wd60622@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 22:48:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add details for building docs locally

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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 7fcb915e0..c95c73bc6 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
 # Contributing guide
 
 Page in construction, for now go to https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-extras#questions.
+
+## Building the documentation
+
+To build the documentation locally, you need to install the necessary
+dependencies and then use `make` to build the HTML files.
+
+First, install the package with the optional documentation dependencies:
+
+```bash
+pip install ".[docs]"
+```
+
+Then, navigate to the `docs` directory and run `make html`:
+
+```bash
+cd docs
+make html
+```
+
+The generated HTML files will be in the `docs/_build/html` directory. You can
+open the `index.html` file in that directory to view the documentation.