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+## History of this role
+this ansible role was originally developed on [github.com/thomas-maurice/ansible-role-gitea](https://github.com/thomas-maurice/ansible-role-gitea.git). Since the role there has some problems like default values for the location of the gitea repositories and the merging of pull requests usually takes several months, a fork of the role was created that offers the same. Only tidier and with the claim to react faster to issues and pull requests.