2008
The CentOS Artwork Repository started at CentOS Developers mailing
list during a discussion about how to automate the slide
images of Anaconda. In such discussion, Ralph Angenendt rose up
his hand to ask: Do you have something to show?
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 —together with the
proposition of creating a Subversion repository where translations
and image production could be distributed inside The CentOS
Community—.
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.
Once the CentOS Artwork Repository was available, Alain
Reguera Delagdo uploaded the bash script for rendering 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.