<section id="preface-history">
    <title>History</title>
    <para>
        &TCAR; 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 (&TCD; installer).  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
        &TCC;&mdash;.
    </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 made world wide
        available. In this configuration, users were able to register
        themselves and administrators were able to assign access
        rights to registered users inside &TCAR;, both using a web
        interface.
    </para>

    <para>
        Once &TCAR; was available, Alain Reguera Delgado uploaded the
        bash script used to produce the Anaconda slides; Ralph
        Angenendt documented it very well; and people started to
        download working copies of &TCAR; to produce slide images in
        their own languages.
    </para>

    <para>
        From this time on, the &TCAR; has been under constant
        development to automate the production of &TCP; corporate
        visual identity.  The list of all changes is available in the
        repository's logs. A resumen of relevant changes is available
        in <xref linkend="repo-history" />.
    </para>

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