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== Zarro Boogs ==
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Bugzilla returns the string "zarro boogs found" instead of "0 bugs found" when a search for bugs returns no results.<ref name="zarro">{{cite web | url = http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.0/html/glossary.html#gloss-zarro | title = Bugzilla Guide glossary entry for ''Zarro Boogs Found'' | work = Glossary | publisher = Bugzilla.org | access-date = 2008-04-21}}</ref> "Zarro Boogs" is intended as a 'buggy' statement itself (a misspelling of "zero bugs")<ref name="zarro" /><ref>Coined by Michael Toy as explained by Tara Hernandez in the [[PBS]] documentary {{cite video | title=[[Code Rush]] | time=18:21 }}</ref> and is thus a meta-statement about the nature of software [[debugging]], implying that even when no bugs have been identified, some may exist.

The following comment is provided in the Bugzilla source code to developers who may be confused by this behaviour:

:'''''Zarro Boogs Found'''''
:This is just a goofy way of saying that there were no bugs found matching your query. When asked to explain this message, Terry Weissman had the following to say:

:I've been asked to explain this ... way back when, when Netscape released version 4.0 of its browser, we had a release party. Naturally, there had been a big push to try and fix every known bug before the release. Naturally, that hadn't actually happened. (This is not unique to Netscape or to 4.0; the same thing has happened with every software project I've ever seen.) Anyway, at the release party, T-shirts were handed out that said something like "Netscape 4.0: Zarro Boogs". Just like the software, the T-shirt had no known bugs. Uh-huh. So, when you query for a list of bugs, and it gets no results, you can think of this as a friendly reminder. Of *course* there are bugs matching your query, they just aren't in the bugsystem yet...
:— Terry Weissman
:''From The Bugzilla Guide – 2.16.10 Release: Glossary''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.16/html/glossary.html|title=Glossary|website=www.bugzilla.org}}</ref>