fixing up some project configuration, fixing the testing endpoint

updating prospector rules

bumping version number, prepping new release

[Feature]: adding basic support for creating tasks

version bump for pypi release

version bump for pypi

[Types]: adding mypy type annotations to a lot of the repo

[DevOps]: removing the other python version so builds succeed, and cl…

…eaning up the use of locals

[DevOps]: wasn't thinking - removing the m2r requirement and switchin…

…g to rst

[DevOps]: version bump