So now I can tell you that Budapest is a beautiful city with plenty of history and amazing landscapes.

We've been locked in a room for two full days focusing on our task and pretty much patching, reworking, and repatching. I have to say it was Gabor and Károly who got me to stay focused, and not the opposite. Luckily I did manage to escape the third day and see some of the city. By the way, Károly is the one to ask if you want to find some fine Hungarian restaurants.

Our goal was to get started on building patches for Drupal 6 to allow it to better handle multilingual websites, but we made much more progress than we expected. After two full days of work, we developed some great patches that are up and running and will just need some polishing and testing before they're ready to be accepted as a core patch. By hooking the entire mechanism in at just the right point of the Drupal bootstrap systems, and adding some optimizations already available, these should not have a performance impact when running Drupal in a single language.

We've put together some powerful language management features that allow for the following:

• Optional prefixes per languages, or none for default language
• Different URLs per language
• Improved configurable language negotiation and browser detection
• Cleanly implemented per-language path aliases starting with translatable variables

We've also outlined some clean implementation paths that will help adding languages to nodes or other objects.

And on the subject of languages, I've learned that outside of the tourist areas, people in Budapest speak German and not English, so I've been able to try out the very little I know of the language. However with my two great guides, I didn't run into any problems. Thank you Gábor and Károly for being such nice hosts.