[DEPR]: karma-selenium-webdriver-launcher

[brian-smith-tcril]

Proposal Date

2023-03-26

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2023-04-09

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Teak? - 2025-04

Rationale

In the process of upgrading edx-platform to node 18, npm install failed because the selenium-webdriver peer dependency in karma-selenium-webdriver-launcher is set to ^2.44.0, but we have 3.4.0 as a dev dependency.

To work around this issue, we forked karma-selenium-webdriver-launcher to the openedx GH org, and updated the peer dependency to allow newer versions of selenium-webdriver (https://github.com/openedx/karma-selenium-webdriver-launcher/pull/1/files)

This package is unmaintained (hasn't been updated in 8 years), and there are other ways to handle this problem.

Removal

• The https://github.com/openedx/karma-selenium-webdriver-launcher repo
• All usage of karma-selenium-webdriver-launcher in edx-platform and any other repos using it

Replacement

TBD

Deprecation

No response

Migration

No response

Additional Info

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Task List

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