in commandline:

• If you have an intention of commiting code to Simple Invoices
  • email me ([email protected]) with your gmail username, (if you dont have one create one at http://www.gmail.com) and i'll add you as a project member
  • get your subversion password at http://code.google.com/hosting/settings (click the 'googlecode.com password' link to get your password)
  • to checkout a copy of Simple Invoices
    • svn checkout https://simpleinvoices.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ simpleinvoices –username (YOUR GMAIL USERNAME ie, justin if your email is [email protected])
    • when asked for your password use your google subversion password NOT your gmail password

• If you wish to check out subversion anonymously (which means you WONT be able to check the project in if you make any changes) but you will get the latest code
  • svn checkout http://simpleinvoices.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ simpleinvoices

NOTE: you can only commit code into Simple Invoices if you have checked out the code using HTTPS and your gmail name

refer:

• http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/source
• http://code.google.com/hosting/settings
• GoogleCode with TortoiseSVN - Slightly out of date but relevant nevertheless

Now you've got the latest code, to start using this

1. setup a test Simple Invoices database on your local MySQL server
2. if your going to commit code into the Simple Invoice repo then
   1. copy the ./config/config.ini file to ./config/dev.config.ini
   2. edit ./config/dev.config.ini and go to the [dev : production] and enter your db settings
3. if your not committing code
   1. just edit ./config/define.php and set “$environment = 'production';”
   2. and edit ./config/config.ini and enter your db settings and whatever other settings you want
4. now open Simple Invoices in your browser and you should be able to follow the installer to import the correct data into Simple Invoices
   1. if you have any issues with the install just import the file ./database/MySQL/Full_Simple_Invoices.sql into your database using phpMyAdmin
   2. or read the install documentation for more info

Once you've checked out svn trunk using https your now free to commit whatever changes you want to Simple Invoices

Feel free to discuss what you want to work on - either in our forum or google group

• Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/simpleinvoices
• Forum: http://simpleinvoices.org/forum/7/

Each time a commit it made to our svn and email automatically gets sent to our google group (refer below)

To keep track of who is checking in what signup to either the google group or the rss feed below

• Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/simpleinvoices-trac
• Rss: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/SimpleInvoicesTracking