Propose a second EWG bidding project: Refactoring of OSM website notes

projects/openstreetmap-website-notes-refactoring/README.md

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+# OpenStreetMap-Website: Refactor Notes
+
+The goal of this project is to refactor the existing notes implementation on the OSM website.
+
+* Project: [openstreetmap-website](https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website)
+* Related:
+  - https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3831
+  - maybe https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3934
+
+The expected deliverable is a mergeable pull request towards https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website. It must at least:
+- Follow the idea of a refactoring by changing as little as possible in behaviour and improving the underlying code structure
+- Handle the UI part – Map, Forms, Lists, …
+- Handle the API part – without any breaking changes to the API
+- Handle the Data migration of existing data – discuss details with the operations team
+- Handle features related to moderation and administration
+- Handle special cases for blocked users, hidden or removed notes and similar cases
+- Include a wireframe of all proposed UI changes
+- Conform to the [CONTRIBUTING.md doc](https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+
+## Positive effects of this project
+
+**Remove bugs, improve stability and reduce maintenance burden:**
+
+For example:
+
+- An issue about notes without comments https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2146
+- Another issue related to notes without comments https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3396
+- https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3744 is waiting on the refactoring before being reviewed
+- Multiple pull request can be closed which are workarounds for the current implementation. For example https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3617, https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3607, https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3608
+
+**Solid foundation for follow up projects:**
+
+There are multiple issues discussing additions to the notes system. They all require a solid foundation which this project will provide. For example:
+
+- Improve notes/comments with optional details on the app or website that created the note/comment, see https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3932
+- Extend the API for moderation use cases, see https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3934
+- Update the list-of-notes-UI, see https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/3386
+- Add tags (or similar) to notes, see for example https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3932#issuecomment-1440222022