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

    <title>Repository History</title>

    <para>
        The CentOS Artwork Repository started at <ulink
        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 &mdash;Do you have
        something to show?&mdash;.
    </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 &mdash;in conjunction with
        the proposition of creating a Subversion repository where
        translations and image production could be distributed inside
        The CentOS Community&mdash;.
    </para>

    <para>
        Karanbirn Sighn considered the idea intresting and provided
        the infrastructure necessary to support the effort.  This way,
        The CentOS Artwork SIG and The CentOS Artwork Repository were
        officially created and world wide available in the following
        two locations, respectively:
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
            <para>
                <ulink url="https://projects.centos.org/svn/arttwork/">https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/</ulink>
            </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
            <para>
                <ulink url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/arttwork/">https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork/</ulink>
            </para>
            </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
    </para>

    <para>
        Once The CentOS Artwork Repository 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 CentOS Artwork Repository to
        produce slide images in their own languages.
    </para>

    &intro-history-2009;
    &intro-history-2010;
    &intro-history-2011;

</chapter>