Help Developing
InvoicePlane is an open source project. This means that everyone can help developing.
Getting started with Development
- Before you dive into coding you should get familiar with the basic web development standards like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Git.
- Sign up at our issue tracker as this is the development board where all bugs / improvements / features are tracked and discussed.
If you want to create pull requests to our offical repository please sign up at Github.com - Join our Slack Channel to chat with other developers.
- Visit the official community forum and signup for an account. You can help us support the users.
- Please get familiar with the following development system we use.
Versioning and Branching Model
Versioning
| Release Type | Version Number | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Major release | v1, v2, v3,... | - |
| Minor release | v1.x, v2.x, v3.x,... | development branch |
| Patch release | v1.x.x, v2.x.x, v3.x.x,... | hotfix branch |
Branching Model
| Branch Name | Description |
|---|---|
master |
This branch contains the latest stable version of the application. |
1.5 |
Branches that contain only a feature version of InvoicePlane, like 1.3 or 1.5 are archive branches that contain the last stable release of that specific version. |
v1.6.0 |
Branches that contain a specific version number like v1.6.0 or v1.5.4 are the development branches. All new code is added to these branches only. |
issue-234 |
Other named branches are used to keep code for very specific tasks that do not fit into another branch. |
More information about this model can be found in this blog post.
Contribution Guides
For more information about the development on each version of InvoicePlane please visit the corresponding contribution guide:
| Version | Link |
|---|---|
1.0 |
Contribution Guide |
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