On 3/19/12, Steven Crothers steven.crothers@gmail.com wrote:

I'm assuming all these graphics are placeholders and not the final product?

I posted the placeholder and the code that interacts with it (centos-art.sh), but I cannot posted the content that let you verify such thing because of Internet limitations on my side at this moment. However, it is definitly my plan to post all the repository content to let you not just produce the art works but the documentation related to respository structure itself and other manuals you need to create for whatever purpose.

At this moment I can tell you that once you've defined the Models (i.e., the SVG files), the Backgrounds images and palettes information inside the directory tree posted, producing all the CentOS-5.5 artwork production is a matter of few minutes only. This creates the information needed to rebrand SRPMs very quick and will surely reduce the rebranding time in the long time. Obviously, it is necessary to define which are the files we need to rebrand before doing any rebranding through the repository and the automation tool. I tried to explain these things in the documentation link posted (centos-art.xhtml).

Also, there seems to be a few problems with the code, they're overly simple mistakes (make sure to test perhaps?)

I'm sure they do exist, even I tested it and worked for me (otherwise be sure I wouldn't post it). The cgi code I posted (centos-web.cgi) is a few weeks intention to learn Python doing something that could be usefull. I'm not a Python expert and need to learn a lot about it. I think the CentOS website must be simple, very simple indeed, and I'll try to express that in a Python program that would be glad to share in the community. I'm agree with the visual distribution you posted on the wiki.

I stopped attempting to run the code after this point, because it appears that it is beyond repair, unusable and and simply does not conform to any known standard of writing code.

Not much to say about that. I don't expect to learn how to run before how to walk first. In that sake, I accept your observation.

If this email seems condescending in anyway, it's probably because it is. I'm actually a little distressed that a completely non-working model has been submitted publicly to the list as an actual response to the need for a new site.

Well, it doesn't work the way you expect, but I warranty you (again) that in my CentOS-5.5 workstation it does work. Remember, this is not a solution yet. Just an intention to create one. Now I now that it doesn't work for you so I will try to make a better proposition when time permit me.

It also appears that sometime between now and March 1st of last year, all the existing discussion appears to have been thrown out. I don't recall there being a discussion on the list about /this/ particular direction with the site (in terms of extreme brokenness, it was expected that something functional would be designed).

Keep working on your ideas and if no answer is returned, keep working on your ideas anyway. The needs has been identified already, let's use those needs as base to create the solutions that satisfy them. Sometimes it is difficult to understand how much effort people need in order to keep themselves going on without breaking themselves to stop working in the former idea that motivated them to start. Consider that I had to reduce my computer time to 4 hours a day and near 8 on weekends. I'm working very hard to have more computer time and a more frequent Internet access so we be able to strength our communication and CentOS collaborations.

In all directions, I'm very glad to see your response and hope to see more like this soon. Thank you very much Steven for taking the time.

Best Regards, al.