diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 64cdf3977fa..4801a5537f6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -247,7 +247,6 @@ docstring-code-format = true
 [tool.ruff.lint.per-file-ignores]
 "__init__.py" = ["F401"]
 "tests/**" = ["ANN201", "D", "PLR0124"]
-"tasks.py" = ["D"]
 "src/pymatgen/analysis/*" = ["D"]
 "src/pymatgen/io/*" = ["D"]
 "dev_scripts/*" = ["D"]
diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index 5beb63bcb6c..618034bee74 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 """
 Pyinvoke tasks.py file for automating releases and admin stuff.
 
-To cut a new pymatgen release, use `invoke update-changelog` followed by `invoke release`.
+To cut a new pymatgen release:
 
-Author: Shyue Ping Ong
+    invoke update-changelog
+    invoke release
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -88,6 +89,13 @@ def publish(ctx: Context) -> None:
 
 @task
 def set_ver(ctx: Context, version: str):
+    """
+    Set version in pyproject.toml file.
+
+    Args:
+        ctx (Context): The context.
+        version (str): An input version.
+    """
     with open("pyproject.toml") as file:
         lines = [re.sub(r"^version = \"([^,]+)\"", f'version = "{version}"', line.rstrip()) for line in file]
 
@@ -104,6 +112,7 @@ def release_github(ctx: Context, version: str) -> None:
     Release to Github using Github API.
 
     Args:
+        ctx (Context): The context.
         version (str): The version.
     """
     with open("docs/CHANGES.md", encoding="utf-8") as file:
@@ -129,36 +138,6 @@ def release_github(ctx: Context, version: str) -> None:
     print(response.text)
 
 
-def post_discourse(version: str) -> None:
-    """
-    Post release announcement to http://discuss.matsci.org/c/pymatgen.
-
-    Args:
-        version (str): The version.
-    """
-    with open("CHANGES.rst", encoding="utf-8") as file:
-        contents = file.read()
-    tokens = re.split(r"\-+", contents)
-    desc = tokens[1].strip()
-    tokens = desc.split("\n")
-    desc = "\n".join(tokens[:-1]).strip()
-    raw = f"v{version}\n\n{desc}"
-    payload = {
-        "topic_id": 36,
-        "raw": raw,
-    }
-    response = requests.post(
-        "https://discuss.matsci.org/c/pymatgen/posts.json",
-        data=payload,
-        params={
-            "api_username": os.environ["DISCOURSE_API_USERNAME"],
-            "api_key": os.environ["DISCOURSE_API_KEY"],
-        },
-        timeout=600,
-    )
-    print(response.text)
-
-
 @task
 def update_changelog(ctx: Context, version: str | None = None, dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
     """Create a preliminary change log using the git logs.
@@ -238,6 +217,9 @@ def release(ctx: Context, version: str | None = None, nodoc: bool = False) -> No
 def open_doc(ctx: Context) -> None:
     """
     Open local documentation in web browser.
+
+    Args:
+        ctx (invoke.Context): The context object.
     """
     pth = os.path.abspath("docs/_build/html/index.html")
     webbrowser.open(f"file://{pth}")