Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Added a way to change status of a issue reports, with an optional notification sent out to the user.
Improved sorting of report columns.
More discussions on issue reporter improvements.

Refactoring of Python scripts used on adblockplus.org to make them easier to change and maintain.

Worked 4 days on Adblock Plus this week.

Subscription authors are now getting notifications about new issue reports, choosing between daily and weekly digests is also possible.
Added sorting functionality to report columns.
Implemented a bunch of improvements to the digest emails to allow spotting “good” reports more easily.
Discussed a bunch of other improvement proposals for issue reports.
Looked into issues that people using icon with text are experiencing – found an undocumented solution, let’s hope that it won’t break with the next Firefox release.
Fixed toolbar icon in SeaMonkey Mail nightlies (nobody reported this issue, I guess nobody noticed?).

Worked 4 days on Adblock Plus this week. The releases on Tuesday/Wednesday were very stressful, so I am slowing down.

Adblock Plus 1.3/1.3.1, Element Hiding Helper 1.1, Diagnostics 1.1.3 released
Fixed a few minor issues reported for these releases, nothing critical so far
Created an extension to generate Adblock Plus screenshots, used it to update screenshots/“translate” them to more languages
Caught up with forum/email again, somewhat

Major update to Element Hiding Helper code and architecture
Added Shift+Mousewheel handling to Element Hiding Helper, also lock/unlock command
Finalized Element Hiding Helper strings, translations started
A little eye candy for Element Hiding Helper — better styling for hotkey labels
Release candidates for Adblock Plus 1.3, Element Hiding Helper 1.1 and Diagnostics 1.1.3 are done (the latter has no real changes, turned out none were necessary)
Russian translation for Adblock Plus, Russian and German translations for Element Hiding Helper (with some help from forum.mozilla-russia.org users)
Coordinated translations on Babelzilla, made sure the released locales are free of errors (way too many translations still unfinished however)
Dropped Indonesian, Malay and Brasilian Portuguese locales from this Adblock Plus release, these weren’t even updated for Adblock Plus 1.2

Issue reporter client-side implementation
Started beta phase for Adblock Plus
Finalized Adblock Plus strings, translators started working
Added third/first party indicator to document source column in blockable items
Changed build system to centralize extension metadata in one file (particularly to allow generating homepage links for available languages automatically)
Updated German translation (thanks to MonztA for proofreading)
Rearchitectured Element Hiding Helper, made it more like Adblock Plus
Changed configuration of Element Hiding Helper hotkeys to allow specifying multiple hotkeys (Ctrl-Shift-S is now used if Ctrl-Shift-K is taken)
A few minor changes to Element Hiding Helper filter composer

First draft of a privacy policy page is under discussion
Some issue reporter polishing (particularly handling of transmission errors)
Tons of Firefox 4 work after JavaScript compartments landing — filed bugs on three issues, fixed an issue in Adblock Plus, worked around another issue affecting Element Hiding Helper
New icon to indicate slow filters (a developer doing graphical design — it’s an admirable attempt, you must give me that at least)

Handling of special cases in issue reporter (e.g. users without filter subscriptions)

New About Adblock Plus page is live and ready for translating
First drafts of the new homepage and system requirements page are under discussion
Improved filter matching performance by 20-35%
Went through submitted issue reports to identify missing data, added pop-up opener and an optional contact email address
Investigated options to embed JavaScript into Python – very sad story

Landed issue reporter, fixed tons of small problems there, improved code quality, added more data and a list of recently submitted reports — looks solid now.
Changed suggestions in the filter composer — protocol is no longer part of the suggestion.
Added a warning to the filter composer, displayed if the custom pattern no longer matches the address it was supposed to block.
Implemented and evaluated a faster filter matching algorithm proposed by lyricconch. Added to the Adblock Plus 1.4 roadmap.
Updated the roadmap, especially defined the major items for Adblock Plus 1.4.

Scripts to receive and display issue reports on the server side
Made sure links to documentation in Adblock Plus no longer need to be translated — the extension now uses a new entry point on adblockplus.org, the user is redirected to the correct language version if it exists.
Updated to Anwiki 0.2.3, will try to stay on stable releases from now on
Rewrote subscription handling scripts to use Python instead of Perl

Sending in reports about filter issues — will be in the next development build but more work is necessary.

Removed leftovers of the old website, unified navigation menu in different parts of the website.
Finally updated Textpattern now that the only thing depending on it is this blog.
Improved Anwiki sync so that www repository contains individual changes along with all the necessary information now.
Significantly improved startup performance of Adblock Plus (found a way to speed up Gecko’s processing of the element hiding stylesheet).
Changed externally added subscriptions so that they no longer persist, updated public interface documentation.

Sending in reports about filter issues — made some progress on the client side, the usual scenario is almost done (screenshots).