diff --git a/jeepyb/cmd/create_cgitrepos.py b/jeepyb/cmd/create_cgitrepos.py
index 9d85b7d..fac86f7 100644
--- a/jeepyb/cmd/create_cgitrepos.py
+++ b/jeepyb/cmd/create_cgitrepos.py
@@ -61,10 +61,9 @@
                                    'DEFAULT_ORG is set.' % project)
             (org, name) = (DEFAULT_ORG, project)
         description = entry.get('description', name)
-        retired = entry.get('acl-config', '').endswith('/retired.config')
         assert project not in names
         names.add(project)
-        gitorgs.setdefault(org, []).append((name, description, retired))
+        gitorgs.setdefault(org, []).append((name, description))
     if SCRATCH_SUBPATH:
         assert SCRATCH_SUBPATH not in gitorgs
         scratch_path = os.path.join(REPO_PATH, SCRATCH_SUBPATH)
@@ -90,15 +89,14 @@
             org_dir = os.path.join(REPO_PATH, org)
             projects = gitorgs[org]
             projects.sort()
-            for (name, description, retired) in projects:
-                if not retired:
-                    project_repo = "%s.git" % os.path.join(org_dir, name)
-                    cgit_file.write('\n')
-                    cgit_file.write('repo.url=%s/%s\n' % (org, name))
-                    cgit_file.write('repo.path=%s/\n' % (project_repo))
-                    cgit_file.write('repo.desc=%s\n' % (description))
-                    cgit_file.write(
-                        'repo.desc=%s\n' % (clean_string(description)))
+            for (name, description) in projects:
+                project_repo = "%s.git" % os.path.join(org_dir, name)
+                cgit_file.write('\n')
+                cgit_file.write('repo.url=%s/%s\n' % (org, name))
+                cgit_file.write('repo.path=%s/\n' % (project_repo))
+                cgit_file.write('repo.desc=%s\n' % (description))
+                cgit_file.write(
+                    'repo.desc=%s\n' % (clean_string(description)))
                 if not os.path.exists(project_repo):
                     subprocess.call(['git', 'init', '--bare', project_repo])
                     subprocess.call(['chown', '-R', '%s:%s'
diff --git a/jeepyb/cmd/create_hound_config.py b/jeepyb/cmd/create_hound_config.py
index e624d09..0cb529f 100644
--- a/jeepyb/cmd/create_hound_config.py
+++ b/jeepyb/cmd/create_hound_config.py
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
 
 def main():
     registry = u.ProjectsRegistry(PROJECTS_YAML)
-    projects = [entry['project'] for entry in registry.configs_list
-                if not entry.get('acl-config', '').endswith('/retired.config')]
+    projects = [entry['project'] for entry in registry.configs_list]
     repos = {}
     for project in projects:
         # Ignore attic and stackforge, those are repos that are not
diff --git a/jeepyb/utils.py b/jeepyb/utils.py
index f0b0265..21ae550 100644
--- a/jeepyb/utils.py
+++ b/jeepyb/utils.py
@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@
 log = logging.getLogger("jeepyb.utils")
 
 
+def is_retired(entry):
+    """Is a project retired"""
+    if entry.get('acl-config', '').endswith('/retired.config'):
+        return True
+    project = entry['project']
+    if '/' in project:
+        (org, name) = project.split('/')
+        if org.endswith('-attic'):
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
 def short_project_name(full_project_name):
     """Return the project part of the git repository name."""
     return full_project_name.split('/')[-1]
@@ -173,15 +185,15 @@
         self.yaml_doc = [c for c in yaml.safe_load_all(open(yaml_file))]
         self.single_doc = single_doc
 
-        self.configs_list = []
+        self._configs_list = []
         self.defaults = {}
         self._parse_file()
 
     def _parse_file(self):
         if self.single_doc:
-            self.configs_list = self.yaml_doc[0]
+            self._configs_list = self.yaml_doc[0]
         else:
-            self.configs_list = self.yaml_doc[1]
+            self._configs_list = self.yaml_doc[1]
 
         if os.path.exists(PROJECTS_INI):
             self.defaults = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
@@ -193,7 +205,7 @@
                 pass
 
         configs = {}
-        for section in self.configs_list:
+        for section in self._configs_list:
             configs[section['project']] = section
 
         self.configs = configs
@@ -221,3 +233,7 @@
             return default
         else:
             return self.defaults.get(item, default)
+
+    @property
+    def configs_list(self):
+        return [entry for entry in self._configs_list if not is_retired(entry)]