diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index 62daa1c6b..883c67862 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
-If you would like to contribute to the development of OpenStack,
-you must follow the steps in this page:
+If you would like to contribute to the development of the Placement service and
+have never developed for an offical OpenStack project before, you must follow
+the steps in this page to perform required setup:
 
-   https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
+    https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
 
-Once those steps have been completed, changes to OpenStack
-should be submitted for review via the Gerrit tool, following
-the workflow documented at:
+Once those steps have been completed, changes to OpenStack may be submitted for
+review via the Gerrit tool, following the workflow documented at:
 
-   https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow
+    https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow
 
-Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
+There is a growing suite of documentation for Placement contributors published
+at:
 
-Bugs should be filed on StoryBoard, not GitHub:
+    https://docs.openstack.org/placement/latest/contributor/index.html
+
+Note that OpenStack does not use GitHub. Pull requests and issues submitted
+there will not be seen.
+
+Bugs should be filed on StoryBoard:
 
    https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/openstack/placement
diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 656a4624f..000000000
--- a/HACKING.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-======================
-NOTE: WORK IN PROGRESS
-======================
-
-This document needs to be updated to remove nova-specific references, and to
-include hacking rules as we determine they are needed.
-
-
-Building Docs
--------------
-Normal Sphinx docs can be built via the setuptools ``build_sphinx`` command. To
-do this via ``tox``, simply run ``tox -e docs``,
-which will cause a virtualenv with all of the needed dependencies to be
-created and then inside of the virtualenv, the docs will be created and
-put into doc/build/html.
-
-Building a PDF of the Documentation
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-If you'd like a PDF of the documentation, you'll need LaTeX and ImageMagick
-installed, and additionally some fonts. On Ubuntu systems, you can get what you
-need with::
-
-    apt-get install texlive-full imagemagick
-
-Then you can use the ``build_latex_pdf.sh`` script in tools/ to take care
-of both the sphinx latex generation and the latex compilation. For example::
-
-    tools/build_latex_pdf.sh
-
-The script must be run from the root of the Placement repository and it will
-copy the output pdf to Placement.pdf in that directory.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 010bcaa72..b69cf8295 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ Developers
 For information on how to contribute to Placement, please see the contents of
 CONTRIBUTING.rst.
 
-Any new code must follow the development guidelines detailed in the HACKING.rst
-file, and pass all tests.
-
 Further developer focused documentation is available at:
 
 - `Official Placement Documentation <https://docs.openstack.org/placement/>`__