<chapter id="intro-history" xreflabel="History">

    <title>Repository History</title>

    <para>

        The CentOS Artwork Repository started at 

        url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">The CentOS Developers

        Mailing List</ulink> around 2008, on a discussion about how to

        automate slide images used by Anaconda.  In such discussion,

        Ralph Angenendt rose up his hand to ask —Do you have

        something to show?—.

    </para>

    <para>

        To answer the question, Alain Reguera Delgado suggested a bash

        script which combined SVG and SED files in order to produce

        PNG images in different languages —in conjunction with

        the proposition of creating a Subversion repository where

        translations and image production could be distributed inside

        &TC;;—.

    </para>

    <para>

        Karanbirn Sighn considered the idea intresting and provided

        the infrastructure necessary to support the effort.  This way,

        &TCAS; and &TCAR; were officially created and world wide

        available.

    </para>

    <para>

        Once &TCAR; was available, Alain Reguera Delgado uploaded the

        bash script Anaconda slides; Ralph Angenendt documented it

        very well; and people started to download working copies of

        the repository to produce slide images in their own languages.

    </para>

    &intro-history-2009;

    &intro-history-2010;

    &intro-history-2011;

</chapter>