From 48492fd37beea8f76c32c57d0624d7bea171039e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:35:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fleshed out the README and removed dependency on babel

Change-Id: I65927ef6985ebdb46db08b9ac311a8d4df2706c6
---
 README.rst       | 17 +++++++++++------
 requirements.txt |  1 -
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d5d9ca896..509c00e68 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,32 +1,37 @@
 OpenStack Python SDK
 ====================
 
-``python-openstacksdk`` is a ground-up implementation of a Python
-API and SDK for OpenStack REST services.
+``python-openstacksdk`` is a from scratch Python library and SDK for OpenStack
+clouds. It is very young, and not yet usable, but it's under active
+development.
 
+Our goal is to provide a Python library which is:
+
+* Pleasant to use
+* Well documented
+* Complete (works with any OpenStack project)
 
 Building Documentation
 ----------------------
 
 This documentation is written by contributors, for contributors.
 
-The source is maintained in the ``doc/source`` folder using
+The source is maintained in the ``doc/source/`` folder using
 `reStructuredText`_ and built by `Sphinx`_
 
 .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
 .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
 
-* Building Manually::
+To build the docs locally::
 
     $ python setup.py build_sphinx
 
-Results are in the `build/sphinx/html` directory.
+Results are in the ``doc/build/sphinx/html/`` directory.
 
 Requirements
 ------------
 
 * Python 2.6+, Python 3.3+
-* httpretty
 * pbr
 * requests
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c42f93a69..026975181 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 pbr>=0.6,!=0.7,<1.0
-Babel>=1.3
 iso8601>=0.1.9
 requests>=1.1