Re: [mv] Minivend, the next chapter

[cfm@maine.com]

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On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:34:27AM -0400, Mike Heins wrote:
> ******    message to minivend-users from Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>     ******
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I am pleased to announce that Minivend is getting a new direction and
> new resources.

....
 
> Immediately, the development staff has increased four-fold. Please
> welcome:
> 
>     David Wingate
>     Jason Holt
>     Sonny Cook
>     Jon Jensen
> 
> They are all talented Perl developers whose primary job is to improve
> and develop Minivend.

This is critical.  Scale is the big issue now.  If you don't scale
and can't scale up you are dead.

> As you know, Minivend is a bit of a misnomer. In fact, there are several
> people who have commented that they originally passed by Minivend because
> they were looking for a high-end solution. So the name will change,
> to what we don't yet know. Suggestions? There is a $500 cash prize for
> the winner of the name contest.

!minivend.  send my winnings to debian.org  ;^)

> 
> Some questions I am sure will be asked:
> 
>     Q. What does this mean for the software in the short term?
> 
>     A. The Tallyman user interface goes on top of the Minivend
>     software. Releases will be started from a version number 4.5.x
>     and will follow the now-common practice of making odd numbers unstable
>     releases and even numbers stable releases.

Maybe it's just me, but I'll put in a request for a **split** between 
the admin interface and core minivend code.  The proportion of current
minivend package we don't use is very large.  Maybe it's just us and 
the particularly evolutionary path we've taken with minivend.

Best of luck Mike, this is an important step.

cfm

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