As a benevolent dictator ("admin"), I took the liberty in our downstream Phorge installation to enforce project descriptions not to be empty via a custom downstream change.
According to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355966 my change broke using ./bin/lipsum generate projects as https://we.phorge.it/source/phorge/browse/master/src/applications/project/lipsum/PhabricatorProjectTestDataGenerator.php only sets newProjectTitle and newProjectStatus but not a (custom field) project description.
Thus make it also set a random project description.