Research has been using Gitlab issues for some projects, but with T412882 WMF is looking to disable Gitlab issues for all projects. The initial experiment showed that Gitlab issues are useful for external collaborations, but for planning and coordination yet another tool (in addition to phabricator/asana) is not worth it overall.
- create a new phabricator board "Research-Gitlab" to track code related tasks that are currently captured in gitlab issues
- migrate all open tasks to the new board, with one column for each project
- once all Gitlab issues are closed, move forward with T412882