Hopefully the title explains it all, I want newly created projects to always default to having a private status.

Unfortunately I was only able to find very old bugs / forum posts from 2009 where the official response had been 'submit a feature request'.
Surely by now this has been added?

I also checked the administration documentation and config_defaults_inc, but was only able to references to new bugs or bugnote's view statuses:
"$g_default_bugnote_view_status = VS_PUBLIC" and
"$g_default_bug_view_status = VS_PUBLIC;"

So to summarize: Please tell me the correct string for '$g_default_project_view_status = VS_PUBLIC;', or if unbelievably it still hasn't been added to the customisation options, please consider this an official request!