diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 42383b9..53dd632 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@
 /AUTHORS
 /ChangeLog
 /*.egg-info
+/RELEASENOTES.rst
+/dist
+/releasenotes/notes/reno.cache
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/move-to-gerrit-5fc6c755759687a5.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/move-to-gerrit-5fc6c755759687a5.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfe1f38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/move-to-gerrit-5fc6c755759687a5.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+prelude: |
+  Development for git-nit has moved from github to the openstack.org
+  services. The source code is now available at
+  http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/git-nit, patches under
+  review can be seen at
+  https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack%2Fgit-nit+is:open,n,z
+  and bugs and feature requests can be filed via
+  https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/979.
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index b724adf..b129a63 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ coverage
 python-subunit>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 stestr>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 testscenarios
+reno