What i had done on minitage this week end:

Minitage.paste

• Improved varnish configuration
• A new plone profile to be directly mapped to a zeo instance

Minitage.recipe

• Pyc are now just regenerated when eggs are moved into the cache. Thanks to Jim Fulton and the appropriate zc.buildout's function i have borrowed :p
• easy_install method was refactored a bit.
• eggs install method code is now rock solid until the next bug.
  

Thoughts

• For a long time, i think to cache authenticated content though a http proxy-cache. This can be done with the coordination of the plone cachesetup product and varnish. This will be certainly a next improvment to the varnish template. As i will study a cache solution, next week, in my daly work, it will be normally quickly updated :)