IRC offers a more interactive experience for exchanging ideas and information than on the mailing list.  CloudStack have three IRC channels that people can join on freenode.

• cloudstack - For CloudStack users and developers to collaborate on problems in deploying and using CloudStack.  This channel mirrors the cloudstack-users mailing list.
• cloudstack-dev - For CloudStack developers to collaborate on development in general.
• cloudstack-meeting - For CloudStack developers to host meetings.  There is one held every Wednesday.

Guidlines

• Don't make decisions on IRC.  You can come to an agreement on IRC but you bring that agreement to the mailing list before it is decided.
• Use the mailing list to establish an IRC meeting time so anyone who's interested can join the meeting.
• Use cloudstack-meeting for meetings and cloudstack-dev and cloudstack for posting questions.
• Use bots to record the meeting and publish the meeting the mailing list.  

Meetings on IRC

Can someone write down how to use record the meeting and how to post to the mailing list?  How should they follow up on the mailing list for any agreements achieved on IRC?  Is it simply to check the topic after 72 hours?

Tips

• Setup filters to filter out the JIRA messages and join/leave messages.