huge update:

introduced meta tasks which are used by `_map()`;
introduced task groups;
ending with `gather_and_close()` now;
pool unittests rewritten accordingly;
two new helper classes

usage/example_server.py

@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ async def main() -> None:
     control_server_task.cancel()
     # Since our workers should now be stuck waiting for more items to pick from the queue, but no items are left,
     # we can now safely cancel their tasks.
-    pool.stop_all()
     pool.lock()
+    pool.stop_all()
     # Finally we allow for all tasks to do do their cleanup, if they need to do any, upon being cancelled.
     # We block until they all return or raise an exception, but since we are not interested in any of their exceptions,
     # we just silently collect their exceptions along with their return values.
-    await pool.gather(return_exceptions=True)
+    await pool.gather_and_close(return_exceptions=True)
     await control_server_task