diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index 378479ec5175..135eea4d57dd 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # The format of this file isn't really documented; just use --generate-rcfile
 
 [Messages Control]
+# NOTE(justinsb): We might want to have a 2nd strict pylintrc in future
+# C0111: Don't require docstrings on every method
 # W0511: TODOs in code comments are fine.
 # W0142: *args and **kwargs are fine.
 # W0622: Redefining id is fine.
-disable=W0511,W0142,W0622
+disable=C0111,W0511,W0142,W0622
 
 [Basic]
 # Variable names can be 1 to 31 characters long, with lowercase and underscores