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This section records noteworthy changes of CentOS Artwork Repository
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through years.
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@subheading 2008
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The CentOS Artwork Repository started at CentOS Developers mailing
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list (@email{centos-devel@@centos.org}) during a discussion about how
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to automate the slide images of Anaconda. In such discussion, Ralph
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Angenendt rose up his hand to ask: Do you have something to show? 
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To answer the question, Alain Reguera Delgado posted a bash script to
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produce slide images in different languages ---together with the
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proposition of creating a Subversion centralized repository where
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translations and image production could be distributed inside The
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CentOS Community---.
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Karanbirn Sighn considered the idea intresting and provides the
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infrastructure necessary to support the effort. This way the CentOS
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Artwork SIG and the CentOS Artwork Repository are officially created
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and made available in the following urls:
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@itemize
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@item @url{https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/}
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@item @url{https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork/}
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@end itemize
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Once the CentOS Artwork Repository was available, Alain Reguera
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Delagdo uploaded the bash script for rendering Anaconda slides; Ralph
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Angenendt documented it very well and The CentOS Translators started
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to download working copies of CentOS Artwork Repository to produce
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slide images in their own languages.
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@subheading 2009
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The rendition script is at a very rustic state where only slide images
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can be produced. 
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The rendition script is improved to produce not only slide images, but
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PNG images using one SVG file as input. In this configuration one
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translated SVG instance was created from the SVG provided as input in
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order to produce one translated PNG image as output.  The translation
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of SVG files is made through SED replacement commands and the
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rendition of PNG images is realized through Inkscape command line
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internface.
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The rendition script is named @command{render.sh}. The directory
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structures are prepared to receive the rendition script so images
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could be produced inside them. Each directory structure has design
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templates (.svg), translation files (.sed), and translated images
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(.png).
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The rendition script is unified in a common place and linked from
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different directory structures. There is no need to have the same code
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in different directory structures if it can be in just one place and
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then be linked from different locations.
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The concepts of corporate identity started to be considered. As
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referece, it is used Wikipedia
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(@url{http://en.wikipedia.org/Corporate_identity}) and the book
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@emph{Corporate Identity} by Wally Olins (1989). 
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The rendition script main's goal becomes to: automate production of a
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monolithic corporate visual identity structure based on The CentOS
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Mission and The CentOS Release Schema. 
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The documentation of CentOS Artwork Repository starts to take form in
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@LaTeX{} format.
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@subheading 2010
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The rendition script @command{render.sh} is no longer a rendition
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script, but a collection of functionalities grouped into the
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@command{centos-art.sh} script where rendition is one functionality
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among others.  The @command{centos-art.sh} is created to automate most
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frequent tasks inside the repository.  There is no need to have links
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all around the repository if a command-line interface can be created
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and called anywhere inside the repository as it is usually done with
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regular commands.   
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Inside @command{centos-art.sh}, functionalities started to get
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identified and separated one another. For example, when images are
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rendered, there is no need to load functionalities related to
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documentation manual. There is now common functionalities and specific
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functionalities. Common functionalities are loaded when the script is
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initiated and are available to specific functionalities.
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The @command{centos-art.sh} script is updated to handle options trough
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@command{getopt} option parser.
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The repository directory structure is updated to improve the
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implementation of corporate visual identity concepts.
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@subheading 2011
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The @command{centos-art.sh} script is updated to translate SVG and
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other XML-based files (e.g., XHTML and Docbook) through
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@command{xml2po} program and shell scripts files through
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@command{xgettext} command.  In this configuration there is no need to
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use `.sed' translation files as they previously were used.
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The @command{centos-art.sh} script is updated to improve option
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parsing through @command{getopt} program. All arguments are parsed by
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@command{getopt} now. Once all option arguments have been parsed, only
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non-option arguments remain for processing.
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The @command{centos-art.sh} script is updated to organize
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functionalities in two groups: ``the administrative functionalities''
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and ``the productive functionalities''.  The administrative
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functionalities cover actions like: copying, deleting and renaming
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directory structures inside the repository. Also, preparing your
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workstation for using @command{centos-art.sh} script, making backups
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of the distribution theme currently installed,  installing themes
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created inside repository and restoring themes from backup.  On the
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other hand, the productive functionalities cover actions like: content
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rendition, content localization, content documentation and content
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maintainance.