Updates from Shaka team

[Michelle Zhuo]

Hello everyone,

We've received many interests, questions and enhancement ideas for Shaka Player. Thank you so much! 

We have a few updates regarding the GSoC application.

1. We’re adding a few projects to our list soon, please stay tuned. Please hold to start working on the projects until the GSoC program officially starts.

2. We encourage you to focus on the proposal of the listed projects now. You can reference your work-in-progress PRs when applying for GSoC. However, please understand that we have limited capacity now and would not be able to provide close guidance until the GSoC officially starts in the summer. You are welcome to send us a PR once you have a complete, fully-tested, ready-for-review solution.

3. If you have questions, please send it to the Google group.

4. Please be mindful of posting on the Github page just to claim that you are "interested" in working on a task, since it may spam other subscribed developers, and also confuse other students applying for GSoC at the same time. 

5. Please be kind and only @us for urgent issues on Github regarding your questions or PRs, since that might spam the team members who are not GSoC mentors.

Thank you for your understanding!

Yours,

Michelle

[Michelle Zhuo]

Hello guys,

Thank you for your active discussions regarding the Github issues!

As an open source community, we've been trying our best to provide our developers with valuable information, as well as necessary traffic only. In our world, everyone can get hundreds of emails per day, and the real questions may get overlooked in the sea of emails. We have 240 developers subscribing to our Github repo, and getting them spammed is the last thing we want to see.

Could you please be kind to other developers, and avoid using the Github board just for syncing up like a chat room? Also, please post your questions on the Github issue only when necessary.

Please use the Slack channel if you prefer on-going chats with other students. If you have a PR out, we'll get emails regarding the PR anyway, and the Github will link the PR to the issue automatically.

Thank you so much for your understanding!

Slack channel:

The video-dev is a Slack workspace for general video developers https://video-dev.herokuapp.com/ , and you can join the #shaka-player channel ( https://video-dev.slack.com/archives/C01QRAFHLQK ) in the video-dev workspace. You can post your questions at the #shaka-player channel. However, we don’t use Slack as a primary tool for communication, so please expect a slower response.

Yours,

Michelle