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+Fedora Infrastructure
+=====================
+
+Welcome! This is the Fedora Infrastructure Pagure project. 
+
+issues against this project are for issues in Fedora Infrastructure. 
+
+git repo of this project is misc scripts and tools for Fedora
+
+If you are looking for the Fedora Infrastructure ansible repo, 
+that is not here, look at: 
+
+https://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ansible.git/
+
+If you would like to help out with Fedora Infrastructure, 
+see: 
+
+https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted
+and
+https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice