TLC Meeting - June 8, 2022

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

Agenda

• Ticket Status
  • 86 open Issues
  • 30 outstanding PRs
• CDP support
• Membership Updates
• PLC status update
• Selenium 4.3: Remove deprecations release
• Selenium 4.4 & Beyond
• SFC membership

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CDP support

Support for v103 should come with 4.3, estimated for June 22.

Membership Updates

symonk to become a committer.

PLC status update

• Chicago Conference status - Contract needs to be negotiated because it is too short to organise the event.
• Conference Website - hasn’t been updated since White October ran it; working on it

Selenium 4.3: Remove deprecations release

• Ideally to be released on June 22.
• Deprecating IE? (Edge only?) 10729
  • Options:
    1. Do nothing
    2. Update bindings to force Edge by default
    3. Update IE Driver to only support Edge
  • For now, we won’t make any changes and wait for user feedback and see if the option 2 is the indicated.
• Remove deprecated JWP Python code
• All the Python typing and style updates
• Remove deprecated Java driver constructors PR-10427
• Remove deprecated Actions API PR-10215
• Remove Protocol conversion code from Java/Grid — what is the best way?
• What to do this to minimise issues for users?
• Any input on additional Actions fixes 10724
• W3C: false should throw an error (warning in Java) 10448
  • Java will throw warnings for 4.3 and errors for 4.4

Selenium 4.4 & Beyond

These topics were part of the agenda but were not discussed.

• Touch Actions API
• BiDi implementations
• Async implementations
• Driver management
• Java 11

SFC membership

diemol mentioned the possibility of moving from SFC to the OpenJS foundation, there was no major discussion about it and the topic will be present for the next meeting.