TLC Meeting - August 3, 2022

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

Agenda

TLC members present included:

Support for v104 is already in place. v105 is scheduled for August 30.

PLC Meeting on 8/2, but no SFC representatives. Looking to reschedule.
SeConf 2023 Website → Save the Date page now live
- PLC is now working on a schedule to have things ready for the event
F2F → Test Automation Summit Berlin Aug 24-26 for TLC/PLC
Membership → Need new PLC members; considering new “Project Lead”
Investigating making PLC a paid position
There has been in the past something called the Selenium Fellowship which could be used for this
Alexei has been voted out from the PLC
- However, Alexei is welcome to come back to the team!

Call for feedback! Proposal document
Please give feedback so we can start development by the next TLC meeting (August 17)

We were not able to implement all we wanted so moving many things to 4.5

Firefox Extensions tests/examples for all languages #8357 (titusfortner)
Low Concurrency Grid bug — #10332 (Grid-only) (OPEN)
Remove ELEMENT — #6393 (Java-only) (OPEN)
Add tests for JWP to assist in transition to w3c-only — #10374 (Java-only) (OPEN)
v105 support

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

Codify BiDi API
Add TouchActions API to Selenium
Comprehensive Documentation w/Executable Examples
Fix Bazel support in .NET
- shs96c said he needed to get together with jimevans for this
Better API for IE Mode in Edge
Complete TypeHints in Python
Add .rbs files in Ruby
Selenium + Appium consolidation
Comprehensive command logging across languages
Rewrite atoms in TypeScript

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: