diff --git a/devstack/README.rst b/devstack/README.rst
index cb10767b4c..0c99a7e97d 100644
--- a/devstack/README.rst
+++ b/devstack/README.rst
@@ -12,4 +12,14 @@ Enabling Ceilometer in DevStack
     [[local|localrc]]
     enable_plugin ceilometer https://git.openstack.org/openstack/ceilometer
 
+   To use stable branches, make sure devstack is on that branch, and specify
+   the branch name to enable_plugin, for example::
+
+    enable_plugin ceilometer https://git.openstack.org/openstack/ceilometer stable/mitaka
+
+   There are some options, such as CEILOMETER_BACKEND, defined in
+   ``ceilometer/devstack/settings``, they can be used to configure the
+   installation of Ceilometer. If you don't want to use their default value,
+   you can set a new one in ``local.conf``.
+
 3. Run ``stack.sh``.