TLC Meeting - July 20, 2022

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

Agenda

TLC members present included:

Support for v104 should come with Selenium 4.4, estimated for August 2.

None this time

Last PLC meeting happened 7/5, Next PLC meeting planned for 8/2

Chicago Conference status - Hotel contract has been signed for conference the week of March 27, 2023; will announce at India Conference
Test Automation Summit, Berlin - 3-day event the week of August 22, 2022; TLC/PLC members invited

Remove ELEMENT — #6393 (Java-only) (OPEN)
Error when setting w3c: false in Chrome — #10448 (All bindings; warn in Java) (OPEN)
Low Concurrency Grid bug — #10332 (Grid-only) (OPEN)
Status endpoint — #10725 (All bindings) (OPEN)
Firefox Extensions tests/examples — #8357 (All bindings) (titusfortner)
Virtual Authenticator — #10541 (only Ruby left) (TamsilAmani)
Add tests for JWP to assist in transition to w3c-only — #10374 (Java-only) (OPEN)

Discussed we won’t be able to support Python 3.8 with Python for reasons Discussed we also need to figure out better Bazel + .NET support

(we did this one out of order from the agenda)

Discussed that one option for Selenium 5 is implementing the non-backward compatible changes we’ve discussed:

Discussed another option for Selenium 5 being “batteries included” release to include:

List of major project ideas that could be pursued by Selenium Devs.

Briefly discussed:

BiDi will be worked on at Test Automation Summit
Bazel support with .NET — shs96c said he needed to get together with jimevans for this
Rewriting atoms in TypeScript attempt by AutomatedTester missing a second step