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

    <title>Repository History</title>

    <para>

        The CentOS Artwork Repository started at CentOS Developers

        mailing list (

        url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">centos-devel@centos.org</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

        The CentOS Community—.

    </para>

    <para>

        Karanbirn Sighn considered the idea intresting and provided

        the infrastructure necessary to support the effort. This way

        the 

        url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/">CentOS Artwork

        SIG</ulink> and the 

        url="https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork/">CentOS Artwork

        Repository</ulink> were officially created.

    </para>

    <para>

        Once the CentOS Artwork Repository was available, Alain

        Reguera Delgado uploaded the bash script for rendering

        Anaconda slides; Ralph Angenendt documented it very well; and

        people started to download working copies of CentOS Artwork

        Repository to produce slide images in their own languages.

    </para>

    &intro-history-2009;

    &intro-history-2010;

    &intro-history-2011;

</chapter>