diff --git a/playbooks/roles/gitea-git-repos/library/gitea_create_repos.py b/playbooks/roles/gitea-git-repos/library/gitea_create_repos.py
index 3936a442bc..fd5b697452 100755
--- a/playbooks/roles/gitea-git-repos/library/gitea_create_repos.py
+++ b/playbooks/roles/gitea-git-repos/library/gitea_create_repos.py
@@ -210,12 +210,19 @@ class Gitea(object):
             description_update = {
                 'description': description,
             }
-            resp = self.patch(
-                '/api/v1/repos/{org}/{repo}'.format(org=org, repo=repo),
-                json=description_update)
-            # Commented out as there is no good way to log only those projects
-            # which have an updated description and as a result this is noisy.
-            #self.log("Set description for:", project['project'])
+            try:
+                resp = self.patch(
+                    '/api/v1/repos/{org}/{repo}'.format(org=org, repo=repo),
+                    json=description_update)
+                # Commented out as there is no good way to log only those
+                # projects which have an updated description and as a result
+                # this is noisy.
+                #self.log("Set description for:", project['project'])
+            except Exception as e:
+                # Updating descriptions is best effort as we may fail due to
+                # gitea bugs, but such a failure isn't critical.
+                self.log("Failed to set desciption for:",
+                         project['project'], str(e))
 
     def make_projects(self, projects, gitea_repos, csrf_token,
                       settings_thread_pool, branches_thread_pool, futures):