diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f51542..0000000
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-[run]
-branch = True
-source = kite
-omit = kite/tests/*,kite/openstack/*
-
-[report]
-ignore_errors = True
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f89fd3..0000000
--- a/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-*.py[cod]
-kite/tests/tmp/*
-
-# C extensions
-*.so
-
-# Packages
-*.egg
-*.egg-info
-dist
-build
-eggs
-parts
-bin
-var
-sdist
-develop-eggs
-.installed.cfg
-lib
-lib64
-
-# Installer logs
-pip-log.txt
-
-# Unit test / coverage reports
-.coverage
-.tox
-nosetests.xml
-.testrepository
-
-# Translations
-*.mo
-
-# Mr Developer
-.mr.developer.cfg
-.project
-.pydevproject
-
-# Complexity
-output/*.html
-output/*/index.html
-
-# Sphinx
-doc/build
-
-# pbr generates these
-AUTHORS
-ChangeLog
-
-# Editors
-*~
-.*.swp
diff --git a/.gitreview b/.gitreview
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bb6552..0000000
--- a/.gitreview
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-[gerrit]
-host=review.openstack.org
-port=29418
-project=openstack/kite.git
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
deleted file mode 100644
index cc92f17..0000000
--- a/.mailmap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Format is:
-# <preferred e-mail> <other e-mail 1>
-# <preferred e-mail> <other e-mail 2>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.testr.conf b/.testr.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index fb62267..0000000
--- a/.testr.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-[DEFAULT]
-test_command=OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE=${OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE:-1} \
-             OS_STDERR_CAPTURE=${OS_STDERR_CAPTURE:-1} \
-             OS_TEST_TIMEOUT=${OS_TEST_TIMEOUT:-60} \
-             ${PYTHON:-python} -m subunit.run discover -t ./ . $LISTOPT $IDOPTION
-test_id_option=--load-list $IDFILE
-test_list_option=--list
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index b0f418c..d2f15b2 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ This project is no longer maintained.
 The contents of this repository are still available in the Git
 source code management system.  To see the contents of this
 repository before it reached its end of life, please check out the
-previous commit with "git checkout HEAD^1".
+following commit with
+"git checkout 4e21fba46928f5e6e0dea7ca52e3c23826937640"
 
 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-March/090409.html