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+## Overview
+
+
+puppet-httpd is the openstack-infra fork of puppetlabs-apache. We
+forked at the 0.0.4 release.
+
+
+## Why we forked
+
+
+We forked because we were unable to upgrade to later versions of the
+apache module, and in some cases because we were unwilling to do this.
+The modern apache module takes the position of fully modelling the
+apache config file. The older module, that this forked from, takes the
+position of weakly modelling, it accepts a template and puts that in a
+vhost. This allows us to write our vhosts in the apache syntax with a
+thin erb layer on top of it.
+
+However, with the apache module pinned to 0.0.4, we were unable to
+bring in new modules that depended on a newer apache module. Groups
+who consumed our puppet code downstream couldn't use the modern apache
+module either.
+
+We forked to the httpd namespace so that this module (weakly modelling)
+and a modern puppetlabs-apache module (strongly modelling) could
+co-exist.
+
+This also allows us to add features and bugfixes to this module
+without changing its weakly modelled architecture.
+
+
+## Classes
+
+
+TODO
+
+
+## Defined types
+
+
+TODO
+
+
+# License
+
+Apache 2.0
+
+# Project website
+
+Though this project is mirrored to github, that is just a mirror. This
+is a sub project under the OpenStack umbrella, and so has more process
+associated with it than your typical Puppet module.
+
+This module is under the direction of the openstack-infra team.
+Website: http://ci.openstack.org/
+
+The official git repository is at:
+https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/puppet-httpd/
+
+Bugs can be submitted against this module at:
+https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/search?q=puppet-httpd
+
+And contributions should be submitted through review.openstack.org
+by following http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
+
+
+# Contact
+
+You can reach the maintainers of this module on freenode in #openstack-infra
+and on the openstack-infra mailing list.
+
+
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+