diff --git a/zuul.d/projects.yaml b/zuul.d/projects.yaml
index b12a8ab9..e12aadd1 100644
--- a/zuul.d/projects.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/projects.yaml
@@ -3,17 +3,31 @@
       - build-openstack-docs-pti
     check:
       jobs:
-        - openstack-tox-pep8
-        - interop-tempest-consistency
+        - openstack-tox-pep8:
+            # Define a list of irrelevant files to use everywhere else
+            irrelevant-files: &interop-irrelevant-files
+              - ^.*\.rst$
+              - ^doc/.*$
+              - ^.gitignore$
+              - ^.gitreview$
+        - interop-tempest-consistency:
+            irrelevant-files: *interop-irrelevant-files
         # TODO(kopecmartin) master job has issues with ensure-tox role atm
         # which we will figure out in a following patch. Let's comment out
         # the job now so that it doesn't block us
-        # - interop-next-refstack-client-master
-        - interop-next-refstack-client-wallaby
-        - interop-next-refstack-client-victoria
-        - interop-next-refstack-client-ussuri
-        - interop-next-refstack-client-train
+        # - interop-next-refstack-client-master:
+        #     irrelevant-files: *interop-irrelevant-files
+        - interop-next-refstack-client-wallaby:
+            irrelevant-files: *interop-irrelevant-files
+        - interop-next-refstack-client-victoria:
+            irrelevant-files: *interop-irrelevant-files
+        - interop-next-refstack-client-ussuri:
+            irrelevant-files: *interop-irrelevant-files
+        - interop-next-refstack-client-train:
+            irrelevant-files: *interop-irrelevant-files
     gate:
       jobs:
-        - openstack-tox-pep8
-        - interop-tempest-consistency
+        - openstack-tox-pep8:
+            irrelevant-files: *interop-irrelevant-files
+        - interop-tempest-consistency:
+            irrelevant-files: *interop-irrelevant-files