diff --git a/.zuul.yaml b/.zuul.yaml
index d77a528..d893483 100644
--- a/.zuul.yaml
+++ b/.zuul.yaml
@@ -613,6 +613,10 @@
               - ^tempest/hacking/.*$
               - ^tempest/tests/.*$
               - ^tools/.*$
+              - ^.coveragerc$
+              - ^.gitignore$
+              - ^.gitreview$
+              - ^.mailmap$
         - tempest-full-py3:
             irrelevant-files: *tempest-irrelevant-files
         - tempest-full-py3-ipv6:
@@ -643,6 +647,10 @@
               - ^setup.cfg$
               - ^tempest/hacking/.*$
               - ^tempest/tests/.*$
+              - ^.coveragerc$
+              - ^.gitignore$
+              - ^.gitreview$
+              - ^.mailmap$
               # tools/ is not here since this relies on a script in tools/.
         - tempest-ipv6-only:
             irrelevant-files: *tempest-irrelevant-files-2
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index e6fb8fd..7ce431e 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -67,9 +67,6 @@
 bug_project = 'tempest'
 bug_tag = 'doc'
 
-# Must set this variable to include year, month, day, hours, and minutes.
-html_last_updated_fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'
-
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']
 
@@ -83,7 +80,6 @@
 master_doc = 'index'
 
 # General information about the project.
-project = u'Tempest'
 copyright = u'2013, OpenStack QA Team'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
diff --git a/releasenotes/source/conf.py b/releasenotes/source/conf.py
index 57ec7e1..92df4c4 100644
--- a/releasenotes/source/conf.py
+++ b/releasenotes/source/conf.py
@@ -46,9 +46,6 @@
 bug_project = 'tempest'
 bug_tag = ''
 
-# Must set this variable to include year, month, day, hours, and minutes.
-html_last_updated_fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'
-
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']
 
@@ -62,7 +59,6 @@
 master_doc = 'index'
 
 # General information about the project.
-project = u'tempest Release Notes'
 copyright = u'2016, tempest Developers'
 
 # Release do not need a version number in the title, they
@@ -193,17 +189,6 @@
 
 # -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
 
-latex_elements = {
-    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
-    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
-
-    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
-    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
-
-    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
-    # 'preamble': '',
-}
-
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title,
 #  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).