yeah - I am probably good for some help here - I have written a bunch of plugins and backends at this point. I think you'll find writing a task to be not much worse than writing a python script once you internalize a bit of the Pants terminology. I would want to talk about it on pants-devel or the github issue so that we can keep it for reference and so others can chime in. If you think you are willing to write a plugin, we can take it up either place at your convenience.