<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, <ulink url="http://wiki.centos.org/RalphAngenendt">Ralph Angenendt</ulink> rose up his hand to ask —Do you have something to show?—. </para> <para> To answer the question, <ulink url="http://wiki.centos.org/AlainRegueraDelgado">Alain Reguera Delgado</ulink> 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> <ulink url="http://wiki.centos.org/KaranbirSingh">Karanbir Singh</ulink> 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;<footnote><para>See <ulink url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/browser/trunk/Main/render.sh?rev=15" /></para></footnote> Ralph Angenendt documented it very well;<footnote><para>See <ulink type="http" url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/wiki/HowToTranslateSlides" /></para></footnote> and people started to download working copies of &TCAR; to produce slide images in their own languages.<footnote><para>See the following <ulink url="http://www.google.com/search?q=anaconda+slides+site%3Alists.centos.org">Google search</ulink>.</para></footnote> </para> <para> From this time on &TCAR; has been evolving into an automated production environment where &TCC; can conceive &TCP; corporate visual identity. </para> <para> The exact changes commited to &TCAR; through history can be found in the <ulink url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/timeline">repository logs</ulink> so you can know the real history about it. For those of you who just want to get a glance of changes committed, see <xref linkend="repo-history" />. </para> </section>