diff --git a/reference/incubation-integration-requirements b/reference/incubation-integration-requirements
index 5986e9cff..528ac3d8f 100644
--- a/reference/incubation-integration-requirements
+++ b/reference/incubation-integration-requirements
@@ -78,7 +78,12 @@ requirements, including (but not limited to):
 ** Project must use OpenStack task, defect and design tracker(s)
 
 * QA
-** Project must be part of the integrated gate
+** Project must have a devstack-gate job running. This gate job should install
+   the project using devstack and then run tempest tests.   This job should run
+   and vote in the check and gate pipelines for the project.  It is *not* required
+   that this job is running for the projects it depends on.  This demonstrates
+   that it would be easy to add the project to the integrated gate after
+   graduation.
 ** Project must have decent unit test and functional tests coverage
 ** Project must be compatible with all currently OpenStack-supported versions
    of Python