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package/README.md

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-# Zarro
-![Test](https://github.com/fluffynuts/zarro/workflows/Tests/badge.svg)
-
-![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/zarro)
-
-## What is this?
-
-Standing on the shoulders of giants, zarro is a zero- or low-conf orchestration for
-(primarily) dotnet/.NET build and test (eg at CI), but it's also so much more - since
-it's easy to add your own tasks, you can use zarro for whatever you like, but if you're
-looking for CI build / test / coverage* for dotnet/.NET, this might be what you're looking
-for.
-
-_(* coverage works well for NUnit / .NET Framework, but I haven't found a nice process
-for dotnet core - yet)_
-
-## Why not just use `msbuild`?
-
-Zarro wraps msbuild, using `gulp` orchestration under the hood. It does, however,
-take away the pain of:
-- knowing _where_ msbuild lives (since it consumes [gulp-msbuild](https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-msbuild)
-- being able to use a specific version of msbuild (again, thanks to `gulp-msbuild`)
-- running tests via `dotnet test` or via the NUnit CLI runner, as appropriate
-- running coverage reporting (.NET Framework) via OpenCover
-- downloading local variants of tooling required for the above so that your CI server
-  doesn't have to have them installed, or kept up to date
-    - note: zarro will not download msbuild tooling, but should work fine with any
-        installed version of:
-        - VS Community / Professional / Enterprise
-        - VS Build Tools
-        - dotnet sdk (dotnet kindly adds itself to the path)
-- packing nuget packages, either from .nuspecs (.NET Framework) or directly
-  from the .csproj (dotnet core)
-
-## Fine, but I can do all of that with a batch file?
-
-Perhaps (though the msbuild discovery is a bit of a PITA, especially since Microsoft
-likes to keep us on our toes, mixing up exactly _where_ that's installed to, eg in
-vs2019. The real win comes from:
-- out of the box, on a simple-ish repo, zarro should be able to build and test,
-  as long as you use the naming convention of `{Assembly}.Tests` for test projects
-  (though it will also find `Test.{Assembly}` and an ubiquitous `Tests` assembluy)
-- it's easy to add more tasks to your pipeline for further processing
-- use the `gulp` orchestration framework to extend or override available tasks
-
-## _Which_ `gulp`? 3 or 4? They don't play well together!
-
-Zarro has you covered here. The heart of Zarro was originally built for gulp 3.
-Version 4 came out and broke _everything_. I didn't feel like rewriting perfectly
-acceptable tasks, but I did want to keep up with the latest version of `gulp` and
-the speed advantages that were promised. As such, Zarro can consume and adapt
-gulp 3 tasks to run under gulp 4.
-
-## Getting started
-
-1. `npm init -y` (if you don't already have a `package.json`
-2. `npm install --save-dev zarro`
-3. start adding scripts! for example:
-    ```json
-   "scripts": {
-       "build": "zarro @",
-       "test": "zarro @",
-       "zarro": "zarro"
-   }
-    ```
-(the `test-dotnet` task should invoke zarro's inbuilt `build` task (and some earlier
-ones to download tooling, as required) so that when test-time comes, assemblies
-are already built (required for .NET Framework / NUnit runner, and optimised for
-`dotnet` by performing the build and testing without rebuild)).
-
-Add new custom tasks by invoking `zarro --create-task` to guide you through
-the process. This will create a skeleton task file for you under `local-tasks`
-with some of the boiler-plating already done.
-
-## What's in the box
-
-### Direct invocations
-| command-line switch | action                                                              |
-|---------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| --create-task       | guids you through creating a new local task written in typescript   |
-| --help              | shows how to use zarro                                              |
-| --init              | adds a "zarro" npm script to make zarro invocations easier          |
-| --show-env          | shows the observed environment variables and what tasks they affect |
-| --tasks             | lists the task tree (built-in and yours                             |
-
-### Built-in tasks
-There are an array of pre-defined tasks you get out of the box with zarro. I hope to eventually
-provide more documentation for them, but running `zarro --tasks` should tell you something
-similar to:
-
-- help
-  - shows help / usage
-- help:environment
-  - shows help about environment variables zarro observes (same as running with --help)
-- build
-  - attempts to build all found .net solutions
-- test-dotnet
-  - test .net projects based on conventions
-    - test project names should match `*.Tests` or `*.Test` or plain old `Tests`
-    - assumes test are nunit
-- cover-dotnet
-  - test with coverage
-  - can use dotCover or OpenCover
-- generate-reports
-  - generate html reports from OpenCover results
-- default-tools-installer
-  - installs the default helper tooling from nuget
-    - nunit cli
-    - dotCover
-    - OpenCover
-    - ReportGenerator
-- install-tools
-  - called before build
-  - defaults to install default tools
-  - override with an empty task if not useful
-- dotnet-publish
-  - runs dotnet cli build with publish options
-- nuget-restor
-  - restores nuget packages
-  - run automatically as part of build
-- release-npm
-  - perform guided release of npm packages
-  - can do beta releases
-  - will automatically
-    - increment version
-    - git commit
-    - git tag
-    - git push
-- update-self
-  - updates to zarro@latest
-- update-git-submodules
-  - updates all git submodules in the repo
-- pretest
-  - place-holder: override this to run something before testing
-- verify-up-to-date
-  - verifies that the current branch is up-to-date with the main one
-    - will check against {remote}/{main branch} if possible
-
-
-
-## Zarro doesn't do what I want out of the box
-
-Zarro is designed to be zero- to low- conf. You can guide many aspects of available
-tasks with environment variables. Running `npm run zarro -- --show-env` will show you
-all observed environment variables and where they are applicable. I suggest using
-`cross-env` and applying these variables in one place, to keep things simpler. For
-example, [NExpect](https://github.com/fluffynuts/NExpect) does the following:
-
-### Traditional configuration via environment variables
-
-```json
-"scripts": {
-    "zarro": "cross-env DOTNET_CORE=1 BUILD_EXCLUDE=src/PeanutButter/**/* PACK_INCLUDE=* PACK_EXCLUDE=*Tests*,CoreConsumer,src/PeanutButter/**/* TEST_EXCLUDE=src/PeanutButter/**/* zarro",
-    "build": "run-s \"zarro build\"",
-    "test": "run-s \"zarro test-dotnet\""
-}
-```
-
-in the above:
-- `DOTNET_CORE=1` instructs zarro to use `dotnet` instead of searching for `msbuild`
-- `BUILD_EXCLUDE=...` instructs zarro to exclude everything under that folder, recursively
-  (NExpect imports PeanutButter as a submodule to use some shared code without relying
-   on another package dependency)
-- similarly `TEST_EXCLUDE` excludes PeanutButter tests
-- similarly, `PACK_INCLUDE` and `PACK_EXCLUDE` control nuget packing within NExpect
-
-### Updated configuration
-Zarro will automatically create a `.zarro-defaults` next to your `package.json` if it
-is not found. In here, we can add key-value-pairs of environment variables to set
-when running zarro. These values will be overridden by any existing environment variables,
-so if you need to override a variable which is set on the hosting system, you should
-use `cross-env` as above. However, for many situations, specifying environment variables
-in `.zarro-defaults` makes npm script setup a lot easier. For example, if we use `.zarro-defaults`,
-we can modify the example above:
-
-
-Update package.json with:
-```json
-"scripts": {
-  "build": "zarro @",
-  "test": "zarro test-dotnet"
-}
-```
-Update .zarro-defaults to contain:
-```
-DOTNET_CORE=1
-BUILD_EXCLUDE=src/PeanutButter/**/*
-PACK_INCLUDE=*
-PACK_EXCLUDE=*Tests*,CoreConsumer,src/PeanutButter/**/*
-TEST_EXCLUDE=src/PeanutButter/**/*
-```
-
-Note also here the shorthand of `@` - if a task has the same name as the npm script
-used to invoke it, this is a quick way to surface that task to `npm run` -space.
-
-## Custom tasks
-
-Zarro will also search two folders:
-- local-tasks
-- override-tasks
-in the root of your repo, for extra tasks that you can access from your npm scripts.
-
-These can be brand-new functionality you'd like to add to your repo's build system,
-or you can _override existing tasks_, if they don't suit you. For example, if the `pack`
-task doesn't do exactly what you want, copy `pack.js` from `node_modules/zarro/gulp-tasks`
-into your `local-tasks` folder and modify it to suit you. If you find a generic solution
-to the problem you have which others might find useful or fix a bug, I'd like to know
-about it. PRs for fixes and extension tasks which others could use will be appreciated.
-
-## Examples of custom tasks that I've written in the past
-- a watcher to automatically recompile scss to .css
-- orchestration of build / test of sub-projects that aren't .NET
-- automatic version incrementing of packages before release
-- committing, tagging and pushing new changes to GitHub
-  - I've found that writing a meta task called `release` can make it much
-    less painful to perform a release of my nuget packages, for example.
-    This meta task would:
-      - build
-      - test
-      - increment package versions
-      - pack
-      - push packages
-      - commit the updates package definitions
-      - tag the release
-      - push the tag and changes to GitHub
-
-## API
-
-Zarro provides some convenience functionality from baked-in modules. To access a module,
-the global `requireModule` function will resolve the correct location for you. Modules
-live under the `gulp-tasks/modules` folder. Most modules will return a single function,
-though there are some exceptions. Some modules may be of interest to custom tasks, eg:
-
-- `gulp`
-    - you should `requireModule("gulp")` wherever you would have normally
-        done `require("gulp")`. This gets you the patched version of gulp 4 which
-        will happily consume gulp 3 tasks and which has inbuilt support for help
-        for your tasks on both gulp 3 and 4. Most importantly, if you _do not_ use this
-        export, your tasks may not be correctly registered.
-- `env`
-    - provides a utility object to resolve environment variables for you
-        - `register` can register an environment variable as known with a default
-           value and help. See `register-environment-variables.ts` for examples.
-           When you use this function, you can have a central configuration for
-           a default value for an environment variable and your environment
-           variable will be displayed in the `--show-env` output
-        - `resolve` resolves environment variables for you. It can be invoked with
-            one or more variable names, so can be used to fall back from one variable
-            onto another. It will also resolve back values if registered.
-        - `associate` associates one or more variables with one or more tasks,
-           primarily to show which tasks are affected by which variables when
-           running with `--show-env`
-        - `resolveArray` can resolve an environment variable to an array for you,
-            with an optional `delimiter` parameter, which defaults to comma
-        - `resolveNumber` resolves a numeric value from the named environment
-            value or throws if the value can't be resolved as a number, effectively
-            stopping execution. If you're expecting a number (eg port or max thread
-            count) you can simply `resolveNumber` and an invalid value would cause
-            execution to stop with a reasonable message
-        - `resolveFlag` resolves boolean values from environment variables
-            - `true` for: "yes", "true" or "1"
-            - `false` for: "no", "false" or "0"
-            - throws for unknown values
-- `system`
-  - function to run other process and get back stdio results from said processes
-- `resolve-masks`
-    - single function to resolve an array of masks that could be used in a `gulp.src`
-        where those masks can be inclusive or exclusive
-- `find-local-nuget`
-    - provides a single function to find a locally-downloaded `nuget.exe`, automatically
-        downloading it if required. Use this if you need to use `nuget.exe` operations
-        and don't want to set up your build host with a pathed `nuget.exe`
-- git utilities
-    - `git-tag`
-    - `git-push`
-    - `git-push-tags`
-- string padding
-    - `pad`
-    - `pad-left`
-    - `pad-right`
-
-There are many more utilities in there, feel free to browse the source.
-
-## History
-
-If you've made it thus far, some light history might be of interest. Zarro's core
-functionality comes from another repo of mine: [gulp-tasks](https://github.com/fluffynuts/gulp-tasks)
-which was traditionally consumed as a git submodule. However, it seems that a lot
-of people don't really "get" git submodules:
-- people forget (or don't understand that they need to) `git submodule update --init` after
-  a `git clone` or a `git pull`. Some modern git clients are doing this for the user,
-  but not all of them.
-- people don't seem to understand how submodules are stored (literally just a hash and
-  an url), so they don't pay attention when committing them. In particular, I have seen
-  my fair share of inadvertent "submodule wars" where changes upstream aren't applied
-  after a `pull` (ie, people forget to run `git submodule update --init`), then they
-  re-commit back the _old version_ of the module that they have locally. So fixes tend
-  to become unfixed
-- in addition, `gulp-tasks` requires dependencies to be installed in the hosting repo's
-  package.json, meaning that (a) the hosting repo has to "know too much" about the
-  requirements of `gulp-tasks` and (b) upstream changes may require changes to a repo's
-  package.json (and an `npm install`). Whilst this was (eventually) automated as part
-  of `gulp-tasks`, it seems unnecessarily complex.
-- the solution seemed clear: make `gulp-tasks` available via an npm package
-- the name is inspired from the old bugzilla, which would proudly proclaim "zarro boogs"
-  when there were zero bug matches for a query, because (a) names are hard and (b)
-  zarro aims to be zero- to low-conf
-
+# Zarro
+![Test](https://github.com/fluffynuts/zarro/workflows/Tests/badge.svg)
+
+![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/zarro)
+
+## What is this?
+
+Standing on the shoulders of giants, zarro is a zero- or low-conf orchestration for
+(primarily) dotnet/.NET build and test (eg at CI), but it's also so much more - since
+it's easy to add your own tasks, you can use zarro for whatever you like, but if you're
+looking for CI build / test / coverage* for dotnet/.NET, this might be what you're looking
+for.
+
+_(* coverage works well for NUnit / .NET Framework, but I haven't found a nice process
+for dotnet core - yet)_
+
+## Why not just use `msbuild`?
+
+Zarro wraps msbuild, using `gulp` orchestration under the hood. It does, however,
+take away the pain of:
+- knowing _where_ msbuild lives (since it consumes [gulp-msbuild](https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-msbuild)
+- being able to use a specific version of msbuild (again, thanks to `gulp-msbuild`)
+- running tests via `dotnet test` or via the NUnit CLI runner, as appropriate
+- running coverage reporting (.NET Framework) via OpenCover
+- downloading local variants of tooling required for the above so that your CI server
+  doesn't have to have them installed, or kept up to date
+    - note: zarro will not download msbuild tooling, but should work fine with any
+        installed version of:
+        - VS Community / Professional / Enterprise
+        - VS Build Tools
+        - dotnet sdk (dotnet kindly adds itself to the path)
+- packing nuget packages, either from .nuspecs (.NET Framework) or directly
+  from the .csproj (dotnet core)
+
+## Fine, but I can do all of that with a batch file?
+
+Perhaps (though the msbuild discovery is a bit of a PITA, especially since Microsoft
+likes to keep us on our toes, mixing up exactly _where_ that's installed to, eg in
+vs2019. The real win comes from:
+- out of the box, on a simple-ish repo, zarro should be able to build and test,
+  as long as you use the naming convention of `{Assembly}.Tests` for test projects
+  (though it will also find `Test.{Assembly}` and an ubiquitous `Tests` assembluy)
+- it's easy to add more tasks to your pipeline for further processing
+- use the `gulp` orchestration framework to extend or override available tasks
+
+## _Which_ `gulp`? 3 or 4? They don't play well together!
+
+Zarro has you covered here. The heart of Zarro was originally built for gulp 3.
+Version 4 came out and broke _everything_. I didn't feel like rewriting perfectly
+acceptable tasks, but I did want to keep up with the latest version of `gulp` and
+the speed advantages that were promised. As such, Zarro can consume and adapt
+gulp 3 tasks to run under gulp 4.
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. `npm init -y` (if you don't already have a `package.json`
+2. `npm install --save-dev zarro`
+3. start adding scripts! for example:
+    ```json
+   "scripts": {
+       "build": "zarro @",
+       "test": "zarro @",
+       "zarro": "zarro"
+   }
+    ```
+(the `test-dotnet` task should invoke zarro's inbuilt `build` task (and some earlier
+ones to download tooling, as required) so that when test-time comes, assemblies
+are already built (required for .NET Framework / NUnit runner, and optimised for
+`dotnet` by performing the build and testing without rebuild)).
+
+Add new custom tasks by invoking `zarro --create-task` to guide you through
+the process. This will create a skeleton task file for you under `local-tasks`
+with some of the boiler-plating already done.
+
+## What's in the box
+
+### Direct invocations
+| command-line switch | action                                                              |
+|---------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| --create-task       | guids you through creating a new local task written in typescript   |
+| --help              | shows how to use zarro                                              |
+| --init              | adds a "zarro" npm script to make zarro invocations easier          |
+| --show-env          | shows the observed environment variables and what tasks they affect |
+| --tasks             | lists the task tree (built-in and yours                             |
+
+### Built-in tasks
+There are an array of pre-defined tasks you get out of the box with zarro. I hope to eventually
+provide more documentation for them, but running `zarro --tasks` should tell you something
+similar to:
+
+- help
+  - shows help / usage
+- help:environment
+  - shows help about environment variables zarro observes (same as running with --help)
+- build
+  - attempts to build all found .net solutions
+- test-dotnet
+  - test .net projects based on conventions
+    - test project names should match `*.Tests` or `*.Test` or plain old `Tests`
+    - assumes test are nunit
+- cover-dotnet
+  - test with coverage
+  - can use dotCover or OpenCover
+- generate-reports
+  - generate html reports from OpenCover results
+- default-tools-installer
+  - installs the default helper tooling from nuget
+    - nunit cli
+    - dotCover
+    - OpenCover
+    - ReportGenerator
+- install-tools
+  - called before build
+  - defaults to install default tools
+  - override with an empty task if not useful
+- dotnet-publish
+  - runs dotnet cli build with publish options
+- nuget-restor
+  - restores nuget packages
+  - run automatically as part of build
+- release-npm
+  - perform guided release of npm packages
+  - can do beta releases
+  - will automatically
+    - increment version
+    - git commit
+    - git tag
+    - git push
+- update-self
+  - updates to zarro@latest
+- update-git-submodules
+  - updates all git submodules in the repo
+- pretest
+  - place-holder: override this to run something before testing
+- verify-up-to-date
+  - verifies that the current branch is up-to-date with the main one
+    - will check against {remote}/{main branch} if possible
+
+
+
+## Zarro doesn't do what I want out of the box
+
+Zarro is designed to be zero- to low- conf. You can guide many aspects of available
+tasks with environment variables. Running `npm run zarro -- --show-env` will show you
+all observed environment variables and where they are applicable. I suggest using
+`cross-env` and applying these variables in one place, to keep things simpler. For
+example, [NExpect](https://github.com/fluffynuts/NExpect) does the following:
+
+### Traditional configuration via environment variables
+
+```json
+"scripts": {
+    "zarro": "cross-env DOTNET_CORE=1 BUILD_EXCLUDE=src/PeanutButter/**/* PACK_INCLUDE=* PACK_EXCLUDE=*Tests*,CoreConsumer,src/PeanutButter/**/* TEST_EXCLUDE=src/PeanutButter/**/* zarro",
+    "build": "run-s \"zarro build\"",
+    "test": "run-s \"zarro test-dotnet\""
+}
+```
+
+in the above:
+- `DOTNET_CORE=1` instructs zarro to use `dotnet` instead of searching for `msbuild`
+- `BUILD_EXCLUDE=...` instructs zarro to exclude everything under that folder, recursively
+  (NExpect imports PeanutButter as a submodule to use some shared code without relying
+   on another package dependency)
+- similarly `TEST_EXCLUDE` excludes PeanutButter tests
+- similarly, `PACK_INCLUDE` and `PACK_EXCLUDE` control nuget packing within NExpect
+
+### Updated configuration
+Zarro will automatically create a `.zarro-defaults` next to your `package.json` if it
+is not found. In here, we can add key-value-pairs of environment variables to set
+when running zarro. These values will be overridden by any existing environment variables,
+so if you need to override a variable which is set on the hosting system, you should
+use `cross-env` as above. However, for many situations, specifying environment variables
+in `.zarro-defaults` makes npm script setup a lot easier. For example, if we use `.zarro-defaults`,
+we can modify the example above:
+
+
+Update package.json with:
+```json
+"scripts": {
+  "build": "zarro @",
+  "test": "zarro test-dotnet"
+}
+```
+Update .zarro-defaults to contain:
+```
+DOTNET_CORE=1
+BUILD_EXCLUDE=src/PeanutButter/**/*
+PACK_INCLUDE=*
+PACK_EXCLUDE=*Tests*,CoreConsumer,src/PeanutButter/**/*
+TEST_EXCLUDE=src/PeanutButter/**/*
+```
+
+Note also here the shorthand of `@` - if a task has the same name as the npm script
+used to invoke it, this is a quick way to surface that task to `npm run` -space.
+
+## Custom tasks
+
+Zarro will also search two folders:
+- local-tasks
+- override-tasks
+in the root of your repo, for extra tasks that you can access from your npm scripts.
+
+These can be brand-new functionality you'd like to add to your repo's build system,
+or you can _override existing tasks_, if they don't suit you. For example, if the `pack`
+task doesn't do exactly what you want, copy `pack.js` from `node_modules/zarro/gulp-tasks`
+into your `local-tasks` folder and modify it to suit you. If you find a generic solution
+to the problem you have which others might find useful or fix a bug, I'd like to know
+about it. PRs for fixes and extension tasks which others could use will be appreciated.
+
+## Examples of custom tasks that I've written in the past
+- a watcher to automatically recompile scss to .css
+- orchestration of build / test of sub-projects that aren't .NET
+- automatic version incrementing of packages before release
+- committing, tagging and pushing new changes to GitHub
+  - I've found that writing a meta task called `release` can make it much
+    less painful to perform a release of my nuget packages, for example.
+    This meta task would:
+      - build
+      - test
+      - increment package versions
+      - pack
+      - push packages
+      - commit the updates package definitions
+      - tag the release
+      - push the tag and changes to GitHub
+
+## API
+
+Zarro provides some convenience functionality from baked-in modules. To access a module,
+the global `requireModule` function will resolve the correct location for you. Modules
+live under the `gulp-tasks/modules` folder. Most modules will return a single function,
+though there are some exceptions. Some modules may be of interest to custom tasks, eg:
+
+- `gulp`
+    - you should `requireModule("gulp")` wherever you would have normally
+        done `require("gulp")`. This gets you the patched version of gulp 4 which
+        will happily consume gulp 3 tasks and which has inbuilt support for help
+        for your tasks on both gulp 3 and 4. Most importantly, if you _do not_ use this
+        export, your tasks may not be correctly registered.
+- `env`
+    - provides a utility object to resolve environment variables for you
+        - `register` can register an environment variable as known with a default
+           value and help. See `register-environment-variables.ts` for examples.
+           When you use this function, you can have a central configuration for
+           a default value for an environment variable and your environment
+           variable will be displayed in the `--show-env` output
+        - `resolve` resolves environment variables for you. It can be invoked with
+            one or more variable names, so can be used to fall back from one variable
+            onto another. It will also resolve back values if registered.
+        - `associate` associates one or more variables with one or more tasks,
+           primarily to show which tasks are affected by which variables when
+           running with `--show-env`
+        - `resolveArray` can resolve an environment variable to an array for you,
+            with an optional `delimiter` parameter, which defaults to comma
+        - `resolveNumber` resolves a numeric value from the named environment
+            value or throws if the value can't be resolved as a number, effectively
+            stopping execution. If you're expecting a number (eg port or max thread
+            count) you can simply `resolveNumber` and an invalid value would cause
+            execution to stop with a reasonable message
+        - `resolveFlag` resolves boolean values from environment variables
+            - `true` for: "yes", "true" or "1"
+            - `false` for: "no", "false" or "0"
+            - throws for unknown values
+- `system`
+  - function to run other process and get back stdio results from said processes
+- `resolve-masks`
+    - single function to resolve an array of masks that could be used in a `gulp.src`
+        where those masks can be inclusive or exclusive
+- `find-local-nuget`
+    - provides a single function to find a locally-downloaded `nuget.exe`, automatically
+        downloading it if required. Use this if you need to use `nuget.exe` operations
+        and don't want to set up your build host with a pathed `nuget.exe`
+- git utilities
+    - `git-tag`
+    - `git-push`
+    - `git-push-tags`
+- string padding
+    - `pad`
+    - `pad-left`
+    - `pad-right`
+
+There are many more utilities in there, feel free to browse the source.
+
+## History
+
+If you've made it thus far, some light history might be of interest. Zarro's core
+functionality comes from another repo of mine: [gulp-tasks](https://github.com/fluffynuts/gulp-tasks)
+which was traditionally consumed as a git submodule. However, it seems that a lot
+of people don't really "get" git submodules:
+- people forget (or don't understand that they need to) `git submodule update --init` after
+  a `git clone` or a `git pull`. Some modern git clients are doing this for the user,
+  but not all of them.
+- people don't seem to understand how submodules are stored (literally just a hash and
+  an url), so they don't pay attention when committing them. In particular, I have seen
+  my fair share of inadvertent "submodule wars" where changes upstream aren't applied
+  after a `pull` (ie, people forget to run `git submodule update --init`), then they
+  re-commit back the _old version_ of the module that they have locally. So fixes tend
+  to become unfixed
+- in addition, `gulp-tasks` requires dependencies to be installed in the hosting repo's
+  package.json, meaning that (a) the hosting repo has to "know too much" about the
+  requirements of `gulp-tasks` and (b) upstream changes may require changes to a repo's
+  package.json (and an `npm install`). Whilst this was (eventually) automated as part
+  of `gulp-tasks`, it seems unnecessarily complex.
+- the solution seemed clear: make `gulp-tasks` available via an npm package
+- the name is inspired from the old bugzilla, which would proudly proclaim "zarro boogs"
+  when there were zero bug matches for a query, because (a) names are hard and (b)
+  zarro aims to be zero- to low-conf
+