An unofficial IRC log seems to be hosted at http://echelog.matzon.dk/logs/browse/chromium/.  It's likely that anything you say here will be copied in triplicate forever, so only say things your mother would approve of or you wouldn't mind being on the news.

If you are contributing or wish to do so, it is a good idea to connect to this channel. In particular, if you are committing, please connect to the channel so that the sheriff or others may notify you of build breaks and other time-sensitive issues with the build infrastructure. Consider adding your IRC nick to the table here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/UserHandleMapping, espeically if it varies wildly from your @chromium.org account name. (This helps us know who to ping when things go wrong.)

To find out whether your mapping is working (or to find out who to yell at if you're a sheriff), you can ask trungl-bot who a user is:

  nick#chromium> trungl-bot: whois dbeam

  /msg trungl-bot whois dbeam

If people in the channel repeatedly get off topic and are making it hard for sheriffs or chromium contributors to talk without distractions, it may be suitable to give them a ban with timeout via:

and if you'd like to un-op yourself:

  /mode #chromium -o <your_nick>

This will give them an hour to file a bug, gather repro steps/screenshots/test cases, and otherwise see some sunlight.  You must be identified to nickserv for chanserv to obey you.  Also, someone who already has privileges with chanserv (should be anyone who gets an automatic +v when joining) will have to grant you the appropriate flags.  Ask them to run:

  /msg chanserv flags #chromium <your_nick> +ARVfiorstv