On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: > On 9/16/08, Marcus Moeller <mm at gcug.de> wrote: >> Dear David. >>> I'd like to have centos-intro for the first, I mean >>> http://dag.wieers.com/blog/files/centos-intro-1.4-en.png I think it >>> should be available in every language we provide. That's why I was >>> talking about ArtWork SIG. I guess we could include it into "build" >>> package (http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/BuildingEnvironment), so it >>> generates automatically as the other ones... Finally we can go for the >>> whole presentation. >> >> Do you think the timeline could be generated dynamically from svn >> based on the current date? > > Maybe we could create the timeline boxes and modify its x width based > on the substitutions commands available in its related sed file. > Working with the same units to keep the year relation, and defining > some coordinate values as reference for them. > > Maybe the bash's date command could be used to automate some things. > Also the basic bash arithmetic could be used. If we reach that, it > could be included in > http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/BuildingEnvironment, for all languages > available. > > Surely there are other ways (I would like to hear) ... these are just > some initial thoughts. > > Do you know if there is some place where the timeline growth be > described in details ? Ok, before you start to implement something, let's think about if those resources are well spent. I now update that picture with every release (about every 3/4 months) or if a new presentation is coming. I don't know if it makes sense to make it more complicated than that picture and if it needs to be translated, why not look at how to translate ODF documents instead ? -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
