4.2 Task originators

There are several possible originators of tasks:

The maintainer

The maintainer is the responsible of maintaining the tasks pool, introducing new tasks when needed and setting the priorities. The source of the tasks is either the project plan, bug reports or reactivated tasks.

Cron jobs running in gnupdf.org

There are several cron jobs running in gnupdf.org that perform checks on a nightly build of the sources and executes the unit tests. These jobs can automatically generate new tasks to fix some problem (a high cyclomatic complexity in a module or a fail in a test case).