diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 4047bae760..d98e53c335 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -2831,7 +2831,7 @@
        ##COREBASE##/meta-my-software-layer \
        "
                 </literallayout>
-                Creating and providing an archive of the metadata layer
+                Creating and providing an archive of the metadata layers
                 (recipes, configuration files, and so forth) 
                 ensures that you have met your 
                 requirements to include the scripts to control compilation