TLC Meeting - November 24, 2021

Meetings are held on the #selenium-tlc channel on Selenium Slack.

Agenda

• Check pending topics from previous meeting
• Open issues and PR that need attention
• Releases
  • How do we want to handle patches? E.g. 4.0.x
• Documentation
• Conversation starter: What do we want in Selenium 5?

Open issues and PR that need attention

• Removal of legacy W3C endpoints in Python - https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/10031
  • They will be removed from JavaScript and Python, but not Java. The Grid still needs them to offer support for JWP.
  • JWP is not supported, but access is still temporarily provided.

Releases

How do we want to handle patches? E.g. 4.0.x

• We will not tag the tree when there is a patch release.
• If there are new assets (Selenium Server, etc…), they get uploaded to the previous release.
  • E.g. If we release patch 4.1.1, assets get uploaded to 4.1.0

What do we want in 4.2.0?

• Handling actions class methods - https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/9996

Documentation

• PR doing a reorg of the English docs, other languages will follow after the merge.

Planned topics that were not discussed and they remain open

• Conversation starter: What do we want in Selenium 5?

Topics that came during the meeting (or previous ones) but were left open

• Aligning features across bindings before doing a release, mentioned by [titusfortner][]
• Setting Java 11 as minimum Java version, mentioned by [titusfortner][]
  • Relevant resources: https://snyk.io/jvm-ecosystem-report-2021/ and https://www.jrebel.com/blog/2021-java-technology-report