TLC Meeting - January 5, 2023

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The next meeting will be Thursday, January 19 at 0700 Pacific / 1000 Eastern / 1500 UK / 1930 India.

Participation

TLC members present included:

• harsha509
• p0deje
• titusfortner

Note: Due to holidays, this was mostly just a status update

Agenda

• Ticket Status
• CDP support
• Membership Updates
• Proposals
• CI Health
• Selenium 4.7
• Selenium 4.8
• Projects Underway
• Backlog

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Ticket Status

• 122 open Issues; last meeting: 123
• 30 outstanding PRs; last meeting: 29

CDP support

• v109 scheduled for release on January 10

Membership Updates

None

CI Health

• Ruby has flaky issue with Firefox on Windows

Selenium 4.8

Milestone 4.8

We are hoping to release the week of January 9.

Only 2 outstanding issues currently:

• Deprecate Headless Methods — Needs a blog post

• Deprecate Firefox Profile Methods

• We also need to update changelogs and add any examples/documentation based on the new release

Proposals/Decisions

List of Needs-Decision Issues

• Allow changing http client config on local drivers (Java) — agreed to discuss more later
• Link to Docs for Error Messages — generally seems to be the direction we want to go
• DriverFinder implementation options — consensus was to use the second one
  • User sends options to Service
  • Auto-modify Service in Driver constructor
• Use the Bazel action Alex wrote for our CI — approved
• Join separate CI workflows into a single workflow — pending a PR, but expecting approval if it speeds up results

Projects in Progress

• BiDi API work — pujagani & TamsilAmani have been working on Java & Ruby implemetnations
• Selenium Manager — boni_gg has made a lot of progress this release