* Note: Project properties contains properties injected from profiles, if applicable. Their precedence is
     * {@code profile > project}, hence active profile property may override project property.
     * <p>
     * The caller of this method should decide whether there is a project in scope (hence, a project instance
     * needs to be passed) or not.
     *
     * @param project {@link Project} or {@code null}.

            // for the initial task...
            // In order to work around that problem, we override the
            // invokeAll method, so that whenever the method is called,
            // the pool core size will be incremented before submitting
            // all the tasks, then the thread will block waiting for all
            // those subtasks to finish.