I don't see a description of a problem here, plus the difference to projects in Phabricator (and why they are not sufficient). Could you elaborate please?

This sounds like 'tag' projects to me. The only difference is that we have artificially limited creation of tags by requiring users follow a procedure to create projects.

Just wondering also if this is actually an Epic, or meant to just be part of the the Epic it "blocks."

@DStrine: Could you please provide a problem description, plus explain how this is different from existing project tags?

@Aklapper: The major difference is that we have imposed an artificial restriction on creation of project tags. I believe the whole project creation process is unnecessary friction. The entire point of "tags" is that they are free-form and anyone can arbitrarily invent new ones. I believe that we should consider lifting the project-creation restrictions for the tag type projects (e.g. TestMe, good first task, etc.) since we have already approved a ton of niche or team-specific tags, obviously we aren't preventing a proliferation of projects, we're just making it more difficult for teams to define the tags they intend to use.

T139210#2472338 makes me tempted to decline this very task T105539.....

In T105539#2662735, @Aklapper wrote:

T139210#2472338 makes me tempted to decline this very task T105539.....

That still doesn't remove the restriction on tags..