Issues list status

[Phil Holmes]

A comment and a question about the status field of the issues list.

Comment: with Google code, the status was automatically set to "Accepted" 
for issues manually entered by a registered user.  I see no reason for not 
continuing this policy, but it does mean that bug squad members (and 
anyone else entering issues) needs to remember to set the status manually.

Question: there's a number of patches from _ages_ ago 
labelled "needs_work".  I believe we should change them to "abandoned", 
but I also think that there's no point in leaving them 
as "new", "accepted" or "started".  Seems to me that any with 
patch:abandoned should be marked with invalid status.  Does the list agree?