task.setDescription("Displays the outgoing variants of " + projectName + ".");
            task.setGroup(HELP_GROUP);
            task.setImpliesSubProjects(true);
            task.getShowAll().convention(false);
        });
        tasks.register(RESOLVABLE_CONFIGURATIONS_TASK, ResolvableConfigurationsReportTask.class, task -> {

        given:
        def completed = factory.newOperation("category").setDescription("ignore-me")
        def child = factory.newOperation("category").setDescription("child")
        def parent = factory.newOperation("category").setDescription("parent")
        def parentId

        completed.started()
        completed.completed()

        when:
        parent.started()

            taskReportTask.getProjectReportDirectory().convention(project.getLayout().dir(project.provider(() -> DeprecationLogger.whileDisabled(() -> convention.getProjectReportDir()))));
            taskReportTask.setDescription("Generates a report about your tasks.");
            taskReportTask.conventionMapping("outputFile", () -> taskReportTask.getProjectReportDirectory().file("tasks.txt").get().getAsFile());

            assembleTask.setDescription("Assembles the outputs of this project.");
            assembleTask.setGroup(BUILD_GROUP);
        });
    }

    private void addCheck(Project project) {
        project.getTasks().register(CHECK_TASK_NAME, checkTask -> {
            checkTask.setDescription("Runs all checks.");
            checkTask.setGroup(VERIFICATION_GROUP);
        });

        String description

        String getDescription() { description }

        ProgressLogger setDescription(String description) {
            this.description = description
            this
        }

        ProgressLogger start(String description, String status) {
            setDescription(description)
            started()
            this
        }

        binary.getTasks().create(taskName, LinkExecutable.class, new Action<LinkExecutable>() {
            @Override
            public void execute(LinkExecutable linkTask) {
                linkTask.setDescription("Links " + binary.getDisplayName());
                linkTask.getToolChain().set(binary.getToolChain());
                linkTask.getTargetPlatform().set(binary.getTargetPlatform());

            this.messages = messages
        }

        String getDescription() { description }

        ProgressLogger setDescription(String description) {
            this.description = description
            this
        }

        ProgressLogger start(String description, String status) {
            setDescription(description)
            started()
            this
        }

     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Internal
    @Override
    public String getDescription() {
        return target == null ? null : target.getDescription();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public void setDescription(String description) {
        if (target != null) {
            target.setDescription(description);
        }
    }

                deploymentDescriptor.setDisplayName(project.getName());
            }
            if (deploymentDescriptor.getDescription() == null) {
                deploymentDescriptor.setDescription(project.getDescription());
            }
        }

    }

    @Test
    public void delegatesDescriptionToTarget() {
        antTarget.setDescription("description");

        task.setTarget(antTarget);
        assertThat(task.getDescription(), equalTo("description"));

        antTarget.setDescription("new description");
        assertThat(task.getDescription(), equalTo("new description"));
    }

    public class TestTask extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task {