diff --git a/Authors b/Authors
index 25a3a86ad0df..8045d41f60f7 100644
--- a/Authors
+++ b/Authors
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@ubuntu.com>
 Brad Hall <brad@nicira.com>
 Brad McConnell <bmcconne@rackspace.com>
 Brendan Maguire <B_Maguire@Dell.com>
+Brian Elliott <brian.elliott@rackspace.com>
 Brian Lamar <brian.lamar@rackspace.com>
 Brian Schott <bschott@isi.edu>
 Brian Waldon <brian.waldon@rackspace.com>
diff --git a/run_tests.sh b/run_tests.sh
index cf7e39f0ed2c..37f286e3a9e1 100755
--- a/run_tests.sh
+++ b/run_tests.sh
@@ -112,27 +112,13 @@ function run_pep8 {
   echo "Running pep8 ..."
   # Just run PEP8 in current environment
   #
-  # NOTE(sirp): W602 (deprecated 3-arg raise) is being ignored for the
-  # following reasons:
-  #
-  #  1. It's needed to preserve traceback information when re-raising
-  #     exceptions; this is needed b/c Eventlet will clear exceptions when
-  #     switching contexts.
-  #
-  #  2. There doesn't appear to be an alternative, "pep8-tool" compatible way of doing this
-  #     in Python 2 (in Python 3 `with_traceback` could be used).
-  #
-  #  3. Can find no corroborating evidence that this is deprecated in Python 2
-  #     other than what the PEP8 tool claims. It is deprecated in Python 3, so,
-  #     perhaps the mistake was thinking that the deprecation applied to Python 2
-  #     as well.
-  pep8_opts="--ignore=W602 --repeat"
+  pep8_opts="--repeat"
   ${wrapper} pep8 ${pep8_opts} ${srcfiles}
 }
 
 function run_hacking {
   echo "Running hacking compliance testing..."
-  hacking_opts="--ignore=E202,W602 --repeat"
+  hacking_opts="--ignore=E202 --repeat"
   ${wrapper} python tools/hacking.py ${hacking_opts} ${srcfiles}
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/test-requires b/tools/test-requires
index 2395e781a9a4..84d41e7b2b3b 100644
--- a/tools/test-requires
+++ b/tools/test-requires
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ mox==0.5.3
 nose
 nosexcover
 openstack.nose_plugin
-pep8==0.6.1
+pep8>=1.0
 sphinx>=1.1.2