TLC Meeting - October 27, 2022

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

The next meeting will be Thursday, November 10 at 0700 Pacific / 1000 Eastern / 1500 UK / 1930 India.

Agenda

• Ticket Status
• CDP support
• Membership Updates
• Proposals
• CI Health
• Selenium 4.6
• Projects Underway
• Backlog

Ticket Status

• 88 open issues; last meeting: 88
• 28 outstanding PRs; last meeting: 25

CDP support

• v107 was added already, and is be part of 4.6.
• v108 scheduled November 29

Membership Updates

• No updates

Proposals

• Switching base64 decoder to a strict mode is going to break the compatibility with various Appium drivers

  • Rreverting would be a short term solution, therefore the Appium project has implemented a fix on their end.

• BiDi proposal

  • Still on review.

CI Health

• Scrolling Failures in Firefox
  • One of them our test has different behavior between Chrome & Firefox, and Firefox beta now matches Chrome
  • We leave it alone until Firefox beta is released

Selenium 4.6

• https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A4.6

Projects in Progress

• BiDi API work — pujagani proposal has been made needs feedback - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dCd8Y2PYaR5mOGSmNTwllEHNmFqegfoGkP-TCKvPzSU/edit#
• Selenium Manager — [bonigarcia] about to provide Milestone 1
• Python Type Hints - symonk making progress on this
• Implement JS with TypeScript (#10942) - harsha509 is working on this

Backlog

List of items referenced:

• Add TouchActions API to Selenium (#10808)
• Add/fix Bazel support in .NET (#10465)
• Add .rbs files in Ruby (#10943)
• Comprehensive command logging across languages (#10944)
• Selenium + Appium consolidation
• Rewrite atoms in TypeScript
• Deprecate Java 8 - this was noted to be less of a “project”
• Python Async Rewrite
• .NET Async Rewrite