diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 074473000..41c511b7d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -2,32 +2,21 @@
 Team and repository tags
 ========================
 
-.. image:: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/badges/api-site.svg
-    :target: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/tags/index.html
-
-.. Change things from this point on
 
 API-Site repository
 +++++++++++++++++++
 
-This repository contains API documentation for the OpenStack project.
-
-For details, see `OpenStack Documentation Contributor Guide
-<https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/index.html>`_,
-which includes these pages:
-
- * API Quick Start
- * API Guide (in progress)
-
-In addition to these documents, this repository contains:
-
- * Landing page for developer.openstack.org: ``www``
+This repository contains the index page for
+https://developer.openstack.org in the `www` directory.
 
 To complete code reviews in this repository, use the standard
 OpenStack Gerrit `workflow <https://review.opendev.org>`_.
 For details, see `Gerrit Workflow
 <https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow>`_.
 
+This repository is in a frozen state, it will be fully retired once a
+new home is found for the index page.
+
 Prerequisites
 =============
 
@@ -48,13 +37,6 @@ To build an individual document, such as the API Guide::
 
 The locally-built output files are found in a ``publish-docs`` directory.
 
-Build and update API docs
-=========================
-
-Refer to the `OpenStack Documentation Contributor Guide
-<https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/api-guides.html>`_
-for more information.
-
 Run tests
 =========
 
@@ -63,13 +45,8 @@ install the Python tox package and run ``tox`` from the top-level directory.
 
 To run individual tests:
 
- * ``tox -e linters`` - Niceness tests
  * ``tox -e checkbuild`` - Builds all of the documents in this repository
 
-To run these tests, the Tox package uses the
-`OpenStack doc tools package
-<https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-doc-tools>`_.
-
 Contribute
 ==========
 
diff --git a/api-ref/README.rst b/api-ref/README.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 841eb79e8..000000000
--- a/api-ref/README.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-All the content in the ``api-ref`` directory is migrated to the corresponding
-project repository. Look for the api-ref directory in the ``openstack/<project>``
-repository.
diff --git a/bindep.txt b/bindep.txt
index 2fe6e7c1d..8e0e16122 100644
--- a/bindep.txt
+++ b/bindep.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 # This is a cross-platform list tracking distribution packages needed by tests;
 # see https://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/ for additional information.
 
-gettext
-graphviz
-libjpeg-dev [platform:dpkg]
-libjpeg-turbo-devel [platform:rpm]
 python-dev [platform:dpkg]
 python-devel [platform:rpm]
 zlib-devel [platform:rpm]
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index a72b8beaa..983ab4741 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -4,19 +4,13 @@
 
 pbr>=2.0.0,!=2.1.0  # Apache-2.0
 
-openstack-doc-tools>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
-doc8 # Apache-2.0
-Pygments
-
 sphinx!=1.6.6,!=1.6.7,>=1.6.2,<2.0.0;python_version=='2.7'  # BSD
 sphinx!=1.6.6,!=1.6.7,>=1.6.2;python_version>='3.4'  # BSD
 
-openstackdocstheme>=1.18.1 # Apache-2.0
-nwdiag
-sphinxcontrib-nwdiag
+openstack-doc-tools>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
+Jinja2>=2.10
 
 requests
 os-service-types
-
-# For translations
-Babel>=2.3.4,!=2.4.0  # BSD
+lxml!=3.7.0,>=3.4.1 # BSD
+six>=1.10.0 # MIT
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 2b4515ef9..c8b138b1e 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tox]
 minversion = 1.6
-envlist = linters,checkbuild
+envlist = checkbuild
 skipsdist = True
 
 [testenv]
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ whitelist_externals =
 [testenv:venv]
 commands = {posargs}
 
-[testenv:linters]
-commands =
-  doc8 api-quick-start
-
 [testenv:checkbuild]
 basepython = python2
 commands =
@@ -37,12 +33,3 @@ commands =
 [testenv:docs]
 commands =
   {toxinidir}/tools/build-index.sh publish
-
-[doc8]
-# Settings for doc8:
-# Ignore target directories
-ignore-path = common/
-# File extensions to use
-extensions = .rst,.txt
-# Ignore lines longer than 79 chars
-ignore = D001