The CentOS Artwork Repository started around 2008, 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. Around 2009, The rendition script was at a very rustic state where only slide images could be produced, so it was redesigned to extend the image production to other areas, not just slide images. In this configuration, one SVG file was used as input to produce a translated instance of it which, in turn, was used to produce one translated PNG image as output. The SVG translated instance was created through SED replacement commands. The translated PNG image was created from the SVG translated instance using Inkscape command-line interface. The rendition script was named render.sh. The repository directory structure was prepared to receive the rendition script using design templates and translation files in the same location. There was one directory structure for each artwork that needed to be produced. In this configuration, if you would want to produce the same artwork with a different visual style or structure, it was needed to create a new directory structure for it because both the image structure and the image visual style were together in the design template. The rendition script was moved to a common place and linked from different directory structures. There was no need to have the same code in different directory structures if it could be in just one place and then be linked from different locations. The concepts about corporate identity began to be considered. As referece, it was used the book Corporate Identity by Wally Olins (1989) and Wikipedia (). This way, the rendition script main's goal becomes to: automate production of a monolithic corporate visual identity structure, based on the mission and the release schema of The CentOS Project. The directory structures started to be documented inside the repository using text files without markup. Later, documentation in flat text files was moved to LaTeX format and this way The CentOS Artwork Repository Manual started to take form. Around 2010, the rendition script changed its name from render.sh to centos-art.sh and became a collection of functionalities where rendition was just one among others (e.g., documenting and localizing). The centos-art.sh was created to organize automation of most frequent tasks inside the repository. There was no need to have links all around the repository if a command-line interface could be created (through symbolic links, in the ~/bin directory) and be called anywhere inside the repository as it would be a regular command. Inside centos-art.sh, functionalities started to get identified and separated one another. For example, when images were rendered, there was no need to load functionalities related to documentation manual. This layout moved us onto common functionalities and specific functionalities inside centos-art.sh script. Common functionalities are loaded when centos-art.sh script is initiated and are available to specific functionalities. The centos-art.sh script was redesigned to handle command-line options trough getopt option parser. The repository directory structure was updated to improve the implementation of concepts related to corporate visual identity. Specially in the area related to themes which were divided into design models and artistic motifs to eliminate the content duplication produced by having both image structure and image visual style in the same file. Now, themes are produced as result of arbitrary combinations of both design models (structures) and artistic motifs (visual styles). In the documentation area, the documentation files in LaTeX format were migrated to Texinfo format. In this configuration, each directory structure in the repository has a documentation entry associated in a Texinfo structure which can be read, edited and administered (e.g., renamed, deleted, copied) interactively throuch centos-art.sh. Additionally, the texi2html program was used to produced XHTML output customized by CSS from The CentOS Webenv. Around 2011, the centos-art.sh script was redesigned to start translating SVG and other XML-based files (e.g., XHTML and Docbook files) through the xml2po program and shell scripts files (e.g., Bash scripts) through GNU gettext tools. This configuration provided a stronger interface for graphic designers, translators and programmers to produce localized content. The SED files are no longer used to handle translations. Improve option parsing through getopt. Consolidate the render, help and locale functionalities as the most frequent tasks performed inside the repository. Additionally, the prepare and tuneup functionalities are maintained as useful tasks. The centos-art.sh script is updated to organize functionalities in two groups: the administrative functionalities and the productive functionalities. The administrative functionalities cover actions like: copying, deleting and renaming directory structures inside the repository. Also, preparing your workstation for using centos-art.sh script, making backups of the distribution theme currently installed, installing themes created inside repository and restoring themes from backup. On the other hand, the productive functionalities cover actions like: content rendition, content localization, content documentation and content maintainance.