-- 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 the rendering script documentation available,

translators start to download working copies of CentOS Artwork Repository and

to produce slide images in their own languages.

-- 2009 --

Alain Reguera Delgado is disconnected from Internet but continues developing

the rendering script off-line.  From that time on, 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 becomes:

automating production of a monolithic corporate visual identity structure

based on CentOS Mission and CentOS Release Schema. 

LaTeX-based documentation begins to take form.

-- 2010 -- 

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

and separate them one from another. For example, when images are rendered,

there is no need to load manual functionality.

The directory structure is optimized to corporate identity concepts and

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:

    Render

    ------

    To produce translated images using Inkscape and Sed replacement commands.

    Manual

    ------

    To administer repository documentation using Texinfo and texi2html. This

    made possible to migrate almost all documentation from LaTeX-based to

    Texinfo-based.

    Locale 

    ------

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

    Shell  

    -----

    To perform massive actions inside shell scripts.

    Svg

    ---

    To perform massive actions inside SVG files.

    Html

    ----

    To perform massive actions inside HTML files.

    Path

    ----

    To automate manipulation of files, branches, and tags. 

    About

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

2011 --