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AutomatedTester

thank jgraham !
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RRSAgent

logging to w3.org/2021/06/09-webdriver-irc
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jgraham

Meeting: WebDriver-BiDi
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jgraham

Chair: AutomatedTester
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» AutomatedTester checks which name I am herrer
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jgraham

Agenda: w3.org/wiki/WebDriver/2021-06-BiDi#Agenda
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jgraham

ScribeNick: AutomatedTester
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» AutomatedTester sweet! No extra chars via element
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jgraham

present+
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brwalder

present+
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cb

present+
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jimevans

present+
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jdescottes

present+
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Honza

present+
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jgraham

RRSAgent: Make minutes v2
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RRSAgent

I have made the request to generate w3.org/2021/06/09-webdriver-minutes.html jgraham
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jgraham

RRSAgent: Make logs public
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RRSAgent

I have made the request, jgraham
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whimboo

present+
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AutomatedTester

topic: Web Extensions Community Group
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): this is a FYI item
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AutomatedTester

... I think that this is relevant to this group as there are a lot of similarities between API surface for webextensions and bidi
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AutomatedTester

... e.g. sandbox JS execution
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foolip

Regrets for the meeting happening now, I have other stuff I need to take care of I'm afraid.
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AutomatedTester

AutomatedTester_ (IRC): Is there any documentation this group can read up on?
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): I don't †hink anything has been released yet... I am mentioning as I think there is potential for collaboration between our group and their group
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brwalder

Charter: github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md
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AutomatedTester

q?
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

topic: Gecko implementation progress
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drousso

present+
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simonstewart

present+
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AutomatedTester

Design doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1Of3ZhWI…zuG_hMpmTK7Nv1a9_E_VsnBWtD2nD8/edit
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): The gecko team have sent out an intent to prototype webdriver bidi
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whimboo

groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/d…atform/c/kASQnIcU9Nc/m/v77WY5siBwAJ
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AutomatedTester

... we would love to have feedback on our design document
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AutomatedTester

... we would love to hear from people implementing the client maintainers to make sure this makes sense
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AutomatedTester

... any and all feedback is welcome!
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AutomatedTester

q?
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

topic: context.navigate
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AutomatedTester

github: w3c/webdriver-bidi #93
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» github-bot OK, I'll post this discussion to w3c/webdriver-bidi #93 (Define commands and events related to navigation).
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): the next three items are are status updates and requests for feedback
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AutomatedTester

... foolip (IRC) has reviewed the html parts and hope to get that landed soon
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AutomatedTester

... and this is the last call for the bidi to get this landed soon
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AutomatedTester

... and there has been discussion about how the event ordering should be compared to the command returning
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AutomatedTester

...[gives example around load event]
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AutomatedTester

... this is important to know when a navigation has happened by the test or by something else
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AutomatedTester

... fragments are a special case as they are synchronous
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AutomatedTester

...[describes how things could return]
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AutomatedTester

q?
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

github-bot (IRC): end topic
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jgraham

github-bot: end topic
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» github-bot Successfully commented on w3c/webdriver-bidi #93
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AutomatedTester

topic: context.reload
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AutomatedTester

github-bot (IRC): w3c/webdriver-bidi #107
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» github-bot Because I don't want to spam github issues unnecessarily, I won't comment in that github issue unless you write "Github: <issue-url> | none" (or "Github issue: ..."/"Github topic: ...").
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» jgraham is using IRC just to make controlling the bots easier
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AutomatedTester

github: w3c/webdriver-bidi #107
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» github-bot OK, I'll post this discussion to w3c/webdriver-bidi #107 (Specify a browsingContext.reload command).
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): there is a PR for reloading pages
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AutomatedTester

... I think this is largely straight forward
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AutomatedTester

... one feature that is in CDP is force reload
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AutomatedTester

... and HTML spec does not describe what a "force reload is"
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AutomatedTester

... [describes cases that are not obvious]
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AutomatedTester

... all browsers have this so I am assuming this is going to be simple but it could turn out to be not interoperable
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drousso

q+
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» Zakim sees drousso on the speaker queue
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simonstewart

q+
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» Zakim sees drousso, simonstewart on the speaker queue
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simonstewart

q-
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» Zakim sees drousso on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

... I have noted this in the PR as I think it's important to know but I don't think people are going to change how their browser works
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AutomatedTester

q?
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» Zakim sees drousso on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

ack drousso
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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brwalder

q+
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» Zakim sees brwalder on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

drousso (IRC): I just wanted to mention in safari that a force reload means reload and ignore all the caches
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whimboo

q+
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» Zakim sees brwalder, whimboo on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

ack brwalder
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» Zakim sees whimboo on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

brwalder (IRC): jgraham (IRC) I think you mentioned that force reload is in cdp but I can't see it, I just see ignore cache
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): I think I assumed they are the same
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): I can see there cases where "ignore the cache" might not mean what we think it is
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AutomatedTester

ack whimboo
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

whimboo (IRC):are we only allowing this for top level browser context to match browsers
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): I assumed it was any context and I don't think I have that limitation in the PR
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AutomatedTester

... is "reload a frame" a thing?
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AutomatedTester

... [no replies]
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Honza

Yes, there is "Reload this Frame" action in Firefox
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AutomatedTester

q?
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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drousso

that exists in Safari too
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drousso

i think 😅
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AutomatedTester

github-bot: end topic
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» github-bot Successfully commented on w3c/webdriver-bidi #107
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drousso

nooooooo the shame 😭
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AutomatedTester

topic : context.traverseHistory
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AutomatedTester

github: w3c/webdriver-bidi #109
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» github-bot I can't set a github URL because you haven't started a topic.
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AutomatedTester

github: w3c/webdriver-bidi #109
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» github-bot I can't set a github URL because you haven't started a topic.
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jgraham

topic: context.traverseHistory
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AutomatedTester

github: w3c/webdriver-bidi #109
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» github-bot OK, I'll post this discussion to w3c/webdriver-bidi #109 (Add a browsingContext.traverseHistory command).
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): The third change is moving through history
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AutomatedTester

... I have a draft PR for the html spec changes we need
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AutomatedTester

... the model here is that you can move via a delta
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AutomatedTester

... this is different to CDP but the clients do this
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AutomatedTester

... and it is closer to what cypress does as other tools just have back/forward
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AutomatedTester

... and since there are things in the bfcache there might not be events that are returned to the user
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AutomatedTester

q?
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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» jgraham relevant comments are the best comments
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AutomatedTester

github-bot: end topic
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» github-bot Successfully commented on w3c/webdriver-bidi #109
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AutomatedTester

topic: Stale Element Reference
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AutomatedTester

github: w3c/webdriver #1594
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» github-bot OK, I'll post this discussion to w3c/webdriver #1594 (Consider removal of stale element reference).
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): this is a question that is for all webdriver
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AutomatedTester

... I understand there was a distinction in the past
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simonstewart

q+
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» Zakim sees simonstewart on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

... the question is what is the expected lifetime...
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AutomatedTester

ack simonstewart
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

simonstewart (IRC): The original plan was we kept a cache in the window global.
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AutomatedTester

... if you navigate away and come back it would nuke our cache
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AutomatedTester

... in watir and that they will do a lookup again but selenium doesnt do that and assumes the user knows what is the best wayt to handle this
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): i think that is good
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AutomatedTester

... I think we need to read the webdriver spec and make sure it does what you have just said
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AutomatedTester

... my inclination is to not have something similar in bidi
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simonstewart

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» Zakim sees simonstewart on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

... and that in bidi we have more complex objects that are returned
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AutomatedTester

... and they can have large amounts of data that may get stored in a cache
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AutomatedTester

ack simonstewart
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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AutomatedTester

simonstewart (IRC): I think it gets very interested... in webdriver http we required that they keep it instead of the client
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AutomatedTester

... as the browser would know the lifecycles better than a client
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): my concern is if we return a handle and then it is gc'ed and someone tries to use it and it could return a differrent error
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AutomatedTester

simonstewart (IRC): is this due to JS serialisation
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): maybe... [discusses]
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AutomatedTester

simonstewart (IRC): in webdriver http we essentially wanted something that could be returned that passed going through `json.stringify`
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): [discusses JS execution and handles]
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AutomatedTester

simonstewart (IRC): the original plan was due to things that lives in the DOM
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): that leads to the question about what type of references we need to keep
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AutomatedTester

... one thing that I think is true in http spec but not bidi is...
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AutomatedTester

... if you disconnect an element from the DOM but it's still alive then we would return staleelement reference
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AutomatedTester

... but in JS the handle would still be held
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AutomatedTester

... [missed a few items around usage]
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AutomatedTester

action: Verify Webdriver HTTP spec matches the requirements and clarify where necessary
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» RRSAgent records action 1
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AutomatedTester

github-bot: end topic
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» github-bot Successfully commented on w3c/webdriver #1594
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AutomatedTester

topic: Please review the client
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AutomatedTester

github: web-platform-tests/wpt #28381
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» github-bot I can't comment on that github issue because it's not in a repository I'm allowed to comment on, which are: w3c/webdriver w3c/webdriver-bidi.
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): please review so we can get this landed soon so we can start writing wpt
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AutomatedTester

topic: H2 Priorities
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): this is part question and statement
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AutomatedTester

... in the spec we are now at a stage to allow parallel spec work
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AutomatedTester

... I am happy to help people get started with that
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AutomatedTester

... and moving forward, the next highest value task is `scriptExecution`
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AutomatedTester

... and there some good easy tasks like screenshots
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brwalder

aside: what does "H2" mean here?
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AutomatedTester

... and other low hanging fruit
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» AutomatedTester brwalder (IRC) 2nd half of the year
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AutomatedTester

... [describes cases where we need to choose between cdp vs webdriver in this case]
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AutomatedTester

q?
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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jgraham

jgrahm: Other client priorities seem to be request logging and interception, and user input (could be based on WebDriver actions? Not clear what the requirements are)
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AutomatedTester

automatedtester: what about setting wpt as a priority? and moving to requiring tests for spec changes
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AutomatedTester

jgraham (IRC): yes, I think we can move towards that. We haven't done it yet as there is no client
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brwalder

q+
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» Zakim sees brwalder on the speaker queue
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jgraham

RRSAgent: make minutes v2
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I have made the request to generate w3.org/2021/06/09-webdriver-minutes.html jgraham
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AutomatedTester

... and there is no implementation as writing tests in a vacuum is hard
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brwalder

Chromium impl prototype: github.com/sadym-chromium/bidiInChromeContext
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AutomatedTester

ack brwalder
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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jgraham

RRSAgent: Make logs public
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RRSAgent

I have made the request, jgraham
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AutomatedTester

brwalder (IRC): there is a chromium prototype that sadym (IRC) has been working on
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AutomatedTester

... it's rough but we are starting
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AutomatedTester

... it doesn't do much
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AutomatedTester

q?
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» Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
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» jgraham wonders why the minutes aren't showing up on w3.org
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» jgraham also if other people get to have agenda items at this meeting it will be more fun for everyone ;)
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jgraham

RRSAgent: make minutes v2
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RRSAgent

I have made the request to generate w3.org/2021/06/09-webdriver-minutes.html jgraham
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jgraham

RRSAgent: stop
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» RRSAgent is not logging
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» AutomatedTester wonders if it was silenced at the beginning?
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jgraham

No I'm pretty sure it's been logging
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jgraham

I suspect something's broken in the backend
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AutomatedTester

MikeSmith (IRC):
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jgraham

MikeSmith: ^
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AutomatedTester

MikeSmith (IRC): could you check in on the logging from today's meeting when you're around next
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jgraham

Zakim, bye
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Zakim

leaving. As of this point the attendees have been jgraham, brwalder, cb, jimevans, jdescottes, Honza, whimboo, drousso, simonstewart
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jgraham

I'll leave RRSAgent here for now in case that helps, but I suspect it will probably leave at some point
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AutomatedTester

I will copy over the scroll back in a bit to make sure I haven't lost anything
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