I think they could iterate on this to a place where projects are repository-specific, but still useful for high-level organization and planning. For example, i

I think they could iterate on this to a place where projects are repository-specific, but still useful for high-level organization and planning. For example, if they allowed repo projects to reference issues in other repos, that would you get you 99% of the way there. You could start a single meta-repository that referenced as many repo-specific issues as you cared to consider.