howto get started working with vice

How to contact us and get involved

1. Feel free to listen in or participate with the group on IRC by joining the #vice channel on freenode: here
2. Join the vice mailing list
   

Steps to start working with vice

1. (Optional) Setup a buildout cache if you haven't already done so for another project:
   

   mkdir ~/.buildout
   cd ~/.buildout
   
   echo "[buildout]" >> default.cfg
   echo "eggs-directory=`pwd`/eggs" >> default.cfg
   echo "download-cache=`pwd`/cache" >> default.cfg
   echo "newest=true" >> default.cfg
   
   mkdir ~/.buildout/{eggs,downloads,cache}
   

2. Pull down the vice.plone.outbound project from subversion. We tend to put ours in ~/vice-buildout:
   

   cd ~
   svn co https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/vice.plone.outbound/trunk vice-buildout

3. Bootstrap the buildout process:
   

   cd vice-buildout
   python2.4 bootstrap.py

4. Execute the buildout to create a plone instance:
   

   ./bin/buildout

5. (Optional) Run the tests:
   

   ./bin/instance test -s vice.outbound -s vice.plone.outbound
   

6. Run the instance:
   

   ./bin/instance fg