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Hi,

When you use this website to create an issue, it will by default have status="active". You can choose a status from a combo-box with different values like "fixed" or "won't fix" and so on. It is not always clear which status applies in which situation.
There is a page at Drupal.org that describes the status values and how they are designed to be used: http://drupal.org/node/156119 but that page is not so very clear either. Especially the status values with "patch" in their name are hard to understand.

I believe that status "patch, needs work" means that somebody raised an issue and then somebody else created a patch, attached that patch as a file, and is still not very proud of himself and says that the patch needs work, maybe because the patch is an emergency workaround while the preferred solution requires a different approach, or what have you. If he would have felt more secure he might have set the status to "pach, ready for commit" if he does not have access-rights for the source control system.

So I think a new issue should have status "active" which means that the status needs to be reviewed and assigned, and that status "patch" means that a patch has been created and is available for download.

Now if all this seems confusing, then I propose that I simply remove the three "patch" statusses.
How do you feel about that?