<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 —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 &TCC;—. </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> </section>