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+{% extends 'base.html' %}
+{% block title %}
+    PyTasks - About - Task life cycle
+{% endblock %}
+{% block content %}
+    The task is created by a user and will start life in unpublished state. The creator has all rights over the task. The task in this
+    stage will be visible only to the creator. He can anyways request other users to view and review the task. Then the requested user
+    can view the task untill he does not reply to the request. If the user accepts the request, he can view, edit and comment on the task.
+    The user can also add/remove subtasks or dependencies. If he rejects the request he is just like other users and cannot view the task.
+    When the creator decides the task is ready to be published, he publishes the task. Through out this phase,
+    the creator of the task can delete the task at any point in time.
+    <br /><br />
+    
+     If the task survives and is published, the task is available to be viewed by all the users. The task cannot be edited after this
+     point but subtasks/dependencies can be added/removed. If the task has subtasks, the task is locked forever. It implies that the task
+     cannot be claimed by anyone and exists only to show all of its subtasks in one place.<br /><br />
+     If a task has dependencies, the task is locked untill all of its dependencies are completed. If all its dependencies are completed,
+     the task is open for claims and can be claimed by users.
+     If a task has neither subtasks nor dependencies, it is open as well and users claim the task. Any of the mentors can select user(s) 
+     from the claimed users to work on the task . Dependencies can be added/removed only untill a user is selected to work on the task. This is due
+     to the fact that user had a chance to claim when the task had no dependencies or all its dependencies were satisfied.
+     Also selecting a user to work on the task implies the task has all its dependencies satisfied.<br /><br />
+     
+     During the working stage of task, a mentor can request assign of pynts to users working on task or the mentors. The assign pynts link 
+     will be available to mentor on the task page. If there are no users working, the mentor can request assign of credits to himself
+     or one of the other mentors, who ever has done work on the task. Even if there are no users working on task, if there is a 
+     request for assign of credits to the task implies that someone has worked on the task and hence dependencies cannot be 
+     added after that.<br /><br />
+     
+     After a considerable amount of work has been done and all the users and mentors have been assigned pynts properly, any mentor in the
+     task can mark the task as complete. The link is available on assign pynts page just in case
+     the mentor wants to assign more pynts before marking the task as complete.<br/>
+     If a mentor feels that the task is invalid or decides to delete the task, he will not be allowed to do it. Instead he can close the task
+     by providing a closing message. The link to close task will be available to mentors on the task page itself.<br /><br/>
+     
+     Now all this can be done by any of the mentors and hence think twice before you request a user to mentor the task.
+{% endblock %}