diff --git a/sync/doc/requirements.txt b/sync/doc/requirements.txt
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+# The order of packages is significant, because pip processes them in the order
+# of appearance. Changing the order has an impact on the overall integration
+# process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
+
+# WARNING:
+# This file is maintained in the openstack-ansible-tests repository.
+# https://opendev.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-tests/src/branch/master/sync/doc/requirements.txt
+# If you need to modify this file, update the one in the
+# openstack-ansible-tests repository. Once it merges there, the changes will
+# automatically be proposed to all the repositories which use it.
+
+sphinx>=2.0.0,!=2.1.0 # BSD
+sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter>=0.1.0 # BSD
+openstackdocstheme>=2.2.1 # Apache-2.0
+reno>=3.1.0 # Apache-2.0
+doc8>=0.6.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/sync/gen-projects-list.sh b/sync/gen-projects-list.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2017, SUSE LINUX GmbH.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Get list of all the maintained OpenStack Ansible projects
+
+# 'exclude_projects' variable should contain all the OSA projects
+# listed in https://opendev.org/ but should be excluded
+# from the generated list for various reasons (ie unmaintained,
+# not applicable etc)
+
+# Do not leave empty lines since grep -F will not match anything
+
+set -e
+
+exclude_project() {
+    excluded_projects+="openstack/$1 "
+}
+
+extra_include_project() {
+    extra_included_projects+="openstack/$1 "
+}
+
+############## EXCLUDED PROJECTS ######################
+#
+# List of the projects that need to be excluded for various
+# reasons
+#
+# retired projects
+exclude_project openstack-ansible-os_freezer
+exclude_project openstack-ansible-os_swift_sync
+exclude_project openstack-ansible-pip_lock_down
+exclude_project openstack-ansible-py_from_git
+exclude_project openstack-ansible-security
+# integrated is where we are so we know it's maintained
+exclude_project openstack-ansible
+#
+############## END OF EXCLUDED PROJECTS ###############
+
+############## INCLUDED PROJECTS ######################
+#
+# List of additional projects that need to be included for various
+# reasons
+#
+# ansible-hardening. Used by AIO in favor of the retired
+# openstack-ansible-security
+extra_include_project ansible-config_template
+extra_include_project ansible-hardening
+extra_include_project ansible-role-python_venv_build
+extra_include_project ansible-role-systemd_mount
+extra_include_project ansible-role-systemd_networkd
+extra_include_project ansible-role-systemd_service
+############## END OF INCLUDED PROJECTS ###############
+
+# Replace spaces with newlines as expected by grep -F
+excluded_projects="$(echo ${excluded_projects} | tr ' ' '\n')"
+
+# The output should only contain a list of projects or an empty string.
+# Anything else will probably make the CI bots to fail.
+
+ssh -p 29418 proposal-bot@review.opendev.org gerrit ls-projects --prefix openstack/openstack-ansible- | \
+    grep -v -F "${excluded_projects}" | uniq | sort -n
+
+for x in ${extra_included_projects[@]}; do
+    echo $x
+done