Changed all status to start with Uppercase letters, made 3 properties required. Changed all the status to start with Uppercase letters because they are publicly visible. Also changed required=True to False for created_by, modified_by property to allow site admin to create and modify tasks. Also changed required=True to False for history to allow history not to be written until the task is published.

# use glob syntax.
syntax: glob

*.pyc
*.zip
*~
.project
.pydevproject
app.yaml
build
tests/coverageResults
*,cover
tests/.coverage
*.git
*.egg-info
eggs
parts
.installed.cfg
bin
develop-eggs
.gitignore
.DS_Store
.settings