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@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ Roadmap is [here](https://github.com/ry/deno/blob/master/TODO.txt).
 
 Also see this presentation: http://tinyclouds.org/jsconf2018.pdf
 
+### Github Noise
+
+I am excited about all the interest in this project. However, do understand that this
+is very much a non-functional prototype. There's a huge amount of heavy lifting to do.
+Unless you are participating in that, please maintain radio silence on github. This
+includes submitting trivial PRs (like improving README build instructions).
 
 ## Compile instructions