$Id$ This file records noteworthy changes of CentOS Artwork Repository. Copyright (C) 2003-2011 The CentOS Project. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2011) - The `trunk/Translation' directory structure is removed. The `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Locale/Config' directory structure is used instead to store locale information. - The production of both documentation manuals and images is updated to handle information in different languages by means of `xml2po' and `gettext' locale procedures. Basically, we create one XML file with the information of the file we want to have translations for (e.g., in the case of documentation manuals we use DocBook, but in the case of images very simple XML files are used instead with very simple structures just to cover image translatios needs). The XML file contains the pattern information in English language. Later, using `xml2po' program we produce POT and PO files that end up in translated XML files. Finally, we use the appropriate commands and the XML files to produce different outputs files (e.g., PDF, HTML, PNG, etc.) in different languages. In the very specific case of documentation files, we use Texinfo as first source of documenting and use `--docbook' option of makeinfo to produce the DocBook XML file we pass to `xml2po' to produce translated contents of the documentation we've written on using Texinfo. Sadly, `--docbook' output on Texinfo 4.8 seems to be incomplete (e.g., when a chapter is created the title tag is not set inside. Instead the tag is used instead which make commands like 'docbook2pdf' to fail). I'm pretty sure this will be fixed in the feature, so I keep planing relaying in the fact that Texinfo will produce '--docbook' output correctly. In the very specific case of image files, we use SVG structure as first source of image translation. SVG files are XML based so `xml2po' can be applied to them, build pot and po files and finally create a temporal SVG instance with language-specific transaltions. centos-art locale --edit=Identity/Themes/Distro/Anaconda/Progress In the very specific case of plain-text files, we cannot use gettext directly (we need to mark translatable strings first). So, in order to translate plain-text files, we set translation markers inside plain-text files and use Bash scripts to relate both translation markers with the replacement string. The replacement string is passed to gettext, as we usually do, to retrive language-specific information at rendition time. centos-art locale --edit - Documentation design models were moved to `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Manuals/Config' in order to make them reusable by other manuals. For example, if you need to create a new manual inside CentOS Artwork Repository, execute the following command: centos-art manual --create-manual='ManualName' The above command will use the Default manual design model (i.e., `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Manuals/Config), which is texinfo-based and will prepare the manual directory structure under trunk/Manuals directory structure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2010) - Inside centos-art.sh script, functionalities start to get identified and separated one from another. For example, when images are rendered, there is no need to load manual functionality. There are now common functionalities and specific functionalities. Common functionalities are loaded when the script is initiated and are available to specific functionalities. - The directory structure is optimized to implements the corporate identity concepts and the 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 as part of centos-art.sh script: `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Render/render.sh' To produce translated images using Inkscape and Sed replacement commands. `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Manual/manual.sh' To produce documentation using Texinfo. Almost all LaTeX-based documents were moved to Texinfo format and handled by manual functionality. `trunk/Scripts/Bash/Functions/Locale/locale.sh' To translate centos-art.sh command-line interface messages using gettext. `trunk/Scripts/Functions/Shell/shell.sh' To perform massive actions inside shell scripts. For example, update top-commentaries massively. `trunk/Scripts/Functions/Svg/svg.sh' To perform massive actions inside SVG files. `trunk/Scripts/Functions/Html/html.sh' To perform massive actions inside HTML files. `trunk/Scripts/Functions/Path/path.sh' To automate manipulation of files, branches, and tags. `trunk/Scripts/Functions/About/about.sh' To print license, authors, history, copying, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2009) - 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 turns to: automate production of a monolithic corporate visual identity structure based on CentOS Mission and CentOS Release Schema. - Alain Reguera Delgado is out of Internet for an undefined amount of time, but continues developing CentOS Artwork Repository and its automation tool (i.e., the centos-art.sh script) off-line. - Documentation begins to take form in LaTeX format. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (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 its documentation available, translators start to download working copies of CentOS Artwork Repository to produce slide images in their own languages.