> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:j...@zonker.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:52 AM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [ASFCS40] IRC Meeting for Release Tasks?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:35:51PM -0400, David Nalley wrote:
> > I think this is an excellent idea and hope it continues just as a
> > weekly meeting for the project just for folks to give status on
> > things.
> > A couple of comments though:
> >
> > * I assume since you are proposing this you are willing to act as
> > moderator, and make sure these meetings get announced, logged, and
> > summary and minutes get posted here. Perhaps we can even get meetbot
> > [1] or some analogue up and running to automate this at some point.
> 
> Absolutely. And once we get agreement on time, I'll also put together a
> tentative agenda (suggestions welcome) as well.
> 
> > * If a lot of people aren't used to the multi-threaded, async method
> > that well attended IRC meetings take perhaps it is a good idea to
> > adopt some protocol - IRC meetings can be wonderful if you are used to
> > them, and bewildering if you are new to them, esp if there are a lot
> > of people present and talking. At the same time, you don't want to
> > burden the meeting with too much formality, so perhaps it's a wait and
> > implement if there are problems. Off the top of my head this is a
> > relatively common one that a number of projects have used [2]
> 
> For now, I think that a wait-and-see approach is probably best. If we find
> meetings getting chaotic, then we might want to use the approach from the
> Fedora wiki. (In my experience, even some of the Fedora meetings don't
> follow the formal approach.)
> 

Absolutely agree on doing IRC on the release.  Will be a welcomed change to 
mailing lists.

--Alex

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