TLC Meeting - April 27, 2023

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Due to the Selenium Conference, the next meeting will be Thursday, May 11 at 0700 Pacific / 1000 Eastern / 1500 UK / 1930 India.

Participation

• titusfortner
• diemol
• AutomatedTester
• harsha509
• p0deje

Agenda

• Ticket Status
• CDP support
• Membership Updates
• Proposals/Decisions
• CI Health
• Selenium 4.10.0

Ticket Status

• 169 open Issues; last meeting: 147
• 28 outstanding PRs; last meeting: 26

CDP support

• v113 is available since April 26, needs to be added

Membership Updates

• No updates

Proposals/Decisions

List of Needs-Decision Issues

• Request PLC fund Boni’s continued work on Selenium Manager
  • Option 1 — Everything in project list; estimated $36k
  • Option 2 — Only items in medium & high columns; estimated $26k
  • 5 out of 7 TLC members manifested their vote for option 1, 1 member said they were fine with either option, and 1 did not vote.

The meeting stopped here to get input from members and get a decision on this topic.

The rest of the minutes are shared for completeness.

CI Health

• Firefox issue on DOM property. – Fixed
• Edge/Windows does not appear to be working (investigating) – Fixed

4.10 Milestone

• Release the second week of May?
• Including examples, docs & blog(s).
• Selenium Manager using provided proxy
• Bindings rely on Selenium Manager to check the PATH

Selenium 5 Conversation

• Java 11 (if timing works out)
• Integrate BiDi & CDP interface
• Fully functional Selenium Manager with auto driver & browser downloads
• Split out code to better highlight ecosystem

Projects in Progress

• BiDi API work
  • pujagani & TamsilAmani have been working on Java & Ruby implemetnations
• Selenium Manager
• Bazel Remote Caching (Alex)
• Complete TypeHints in Python - symonk

Backlog

• Add More support to CI (#11305)
• Add TouchActions API to Selenium (#10808)
• Add/fix Bazel support in .NET (#10465)
• JS using TypeScript [(#10942)]https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/10942
• Add .rbs files in Ruby (#10943)
• Comprehensive command logging across languages (#10944)
• Remove JWP support from Java
• Selenium + Appium consolidation
• Rewrite atoms in TypeScript
• Python Async Rewrite? (Current plan is “doubling” the API)
• .NET Async Rewrite (Current plan is to deprecate Sync code)