that says something along the lines of “contrary to popular beleif, I don’t speak Swedish”. I find that some people will switch to Swedish when speaking to me…  Although I do pick up a bit…. not quite a local though :)

Having just moved apartments, it’s obviously time to get on a plane again.

On Monday I fly off to Stockholm again to attend the MySQL Cluster team meeting. Somehow we’re going to squeeze everybody into the Stockholm office (I’ll post humorous cramped photos, I promise).

Of course the thing to do now is to prepare for the meeting… packing can be done on sunday night or something.

Of course, if you’re in the area, come for food/beer!

The other day I managed to send off what’s nearly the final patches for adding proper timeout support to the MySQL Cluster management API. Jonas has had a bit of a look, found one thing I’ve missed, but it’ll probably get in somewhere soon (probably the carrier grade edition first, then others… 5.1 makes sense IMHO if only for the amount of management server testing that my patches add).

Unfortunately in what we laughingly call the past the management server - for whatever hysterical raisins - never really received much direct testing. Sure, if the data nodes couldn’t get configuration, autotest couldn’t control the daemons or something then things were obviously broken. But, say, a subtle (or not so much) change in API or behaviour would certainly not be picked up.

Although the real “feature of the year” (not my words) is fault injection for the management server that we can use in testing. The MySQL Cluster …