Decide on the GitHub Projects

[soupault]

Description:

There are currently 9 GitHub projects associated with this repo. I have just noticed a warning saying that Projects (classic) will be shut down on August 24:

It should be straightforward to migrate the projects to the new format. However, I am not sure whether they have been used recently (except maybe for skimage 2 API) and whether we still need that feature enabled for the repo. I believe GitHub labels are much more convenient to navigate the issues and organize them into categories.

[stefanv]

Projects need to be very actively managed. If someone wants to use them because they want to do the meta-work of curating work, that's all good. But, without such care it quickly degenerates into an unruly garden, in which you can't find anything.

[soupault]

Due to the upcoming deadline, I have taken a liberty to remove the stale projects (with latest update in 2022 or before) and the ones with mere 1-4 issues. There are only 2 projects left, and they are now migrated to the new system - available from https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/projects?query=is%3Aopen .

I will keep this issue open until a conclusive decision is made regarding the use of the functionality.

[lagru]

Thanks for taking the initative @soupault!

Personally I'd love it if I could use a private project to keep track of stalled issues, ones to prioritize and the like (without noise on everyone else's part).

I can also imagine very focused projects working as long as we have a single person ultimately responsible. E.g. I might look into it for EOSS5 related stuff for which me and @mkcor have responsibility.

[lagru]

I'm curious. For a test I added this issue to a personal project on my account.

Did that (and removing it) generate notifications or noise for you?

[soupault]

Did that (and removing it) generate notifications or noise for you?

Nothing. Even when I removed the projects from the this repo, GitHub was silent.