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This file records noteworthy changes of CentOS Artwork Repository.

  Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Alain Reguera Delgado

  Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are

  permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and

  this notice are preserved.

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(2011)

    - Unify common arguments for all specific functionalities (e.g, --answer,

      --quiet, --filter, etc.) and leave just specific arguments for specific

      functions to parse. There is no need to duplicate common arguments

      definitions inside every specific functionality.

    - The `.sed' translation files are no longer used, scalable vector

      graphics are used instead.  Translation messages take place by means of

      xml2po and gettext. With xml2po translatable strings are retrived from

      `.svg' files and stored inside gettext `.pot' and `.po' files for

      translators to edit. Finally, xml2po is used again to build the temporal

      design model translated instance which the final `.png' image is built

      from.

    - The `trunk/Translation' directory structure is removed. The

      `trunk/Locales' directory structure is used instead to store locale

      information. 

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(2010)

    - Inside centos-art.sh script, functionalities start to get

      identified and separated one from another. For example, when

      images are rendered, there is no need to load manual

      functionality. There are now common functionalities and specific

      functionalities. Common functionalities are loaded when the

      script is initiated and are available to specific

      functionalities.

    - The directory structure is optimized to implements the corporate

      identity concepts and the centos-art.sh script.  The CentOS

      Artwork Repository directory structure places the organizational

      convenctions that centos-art.sh script needs to do what we

      expect from it to do.

    - The following functionalities start to take form as part of

      centos-art.sh script:

      `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Render/render.sh'  

            To produce translated images using Inkscape and Sed

            replacement commands.

      `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Manual/manual.sh'  

            To produce documentation using Texinfo.  Almost all

            LaTeX-based documents were moved to Texinfo format and

            handled by manual functionality. 

      `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Locale/locale.sh'  

            To translate centos-art.sh command-line interface messages

            using gettext.

      `trunk/Scripts/Functions/Shell/shell.sh'    

            To perform massive actions inside shell scripts. For

            example, update top-commentaries massively.

      `trunk/Scripts/Functions/Svg/svg.sh'

            To perform massive actions inside SVG files.

      `trunk/Scripts/Functions/Html/html.sh'

            To perform massive actions inside HTML files.

      `trunk/Scripts/Functions/Path/path.sh'

            To automate manipulation of files, branches, and tags. 

      `trunk/Scripts/Functions/About/about.sh'

            To print license, authors, history, copying, etc.

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(2009)

    - The rendering script starts to evolve into centos-art.sh script, a

      command-line interface to manipulate the CentOS Artwork Repository.

    - Corporate identity concepts taken from Wikipedia and related books are

      introduced as development reference. The main goal of centos-art.sh

      turns to: automate production of a monolithic corporate visual identity

      structure based on CentOS Mission and CentOS Release Schema. 

    - Alain Reguera Delgado is out of Internet for an undefined amount of

      time, but continues developing CentOS Artwork Repository and its

      automation tool (i.e., the centos-art.sh script) off-line.

    - Documentation begins to take form in LaTeX format.

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(2008)

    - The CentOS Artwork Repository started at CentOS Developers

      mailing list.

    - Alain Reguera Delgado shares ideas in a thread about Anaconda

      progress slide images and the possibility of automating their

      construction.

    - Ralph Angenendt rises up his hand asking: Do you have something

      to show?

    - Alain Reguera Delgado posts a Bash script to produce slide

      images in different languages ---together with the proposition

      of creating a Subversion centralized repository where

      translations and image production could be distributed inside

      CentOS Community---.

    - Karanbirn Sighn considers the idea intresting and provides the

      infrastructure to support the effort as the CentOS Artwork SIG.

        https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork/

        https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/

    - Alain Reguera Delagdo uploads the rendering script to CentOS

      Artwork Repository.

    - Ralph Angenendt documents the rendering script.

    - With the rendering script and its documentation available,

      translators start to download working copies of CentOS Artwork

      Repository to produce slide images in their own languages.