diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
deleted file mode 100644
index fa91e436343..00000000000
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# Ignore cmake builds from local machine that might have occurred before attempting Docker build. Including these files will cause CMake cache conflict issues
-/cpp/build
diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 573fecca003..b2d2755e9e0 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -18,6 +18,3 @@ java/              @rapidsai/cudf-java-codeowners
 .github/           @rapidsai/ops-codeowners
 /ci/               @rapidsai/ops-codeowners
 conda/             @rapidsai/ops-codeowners
-/Dockerfile        @rapidsai/ops-codeowners
-/.dockerignore     @rapidsai/ops-codeowners
-/docker/           @rapidsai/ops-codeowners
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 57f31cf3a80..00000000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-include python/versioneer.py
-include python/cudf/_version.py
diff --git a/.clang-tidy b/cpp/.clang-tidy
similarity index 97%
rename from .clang-tidy
rename to cpp/.clang-tidy
index 043a93e6ff9..d766d98b45e 100644
--- a/.clang-tidy
+++ b/cpp/.clang-tidy
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 ---
-Checks:    
+Checks:
       'modernize-*,
        -modernize-use-equals-default,
        -modernize-concat-nested-namespaces,
        -modernize-use-trailing-return-type'
-      
+
       # -modernize-use-equals-default        # auto-fix is broken (doesn't insert =default correctly)
       # -modernize-concat-nested-namespaces  # auto-fix is broken (can delete code)
       # -modernize-use-trailing-return-type  # just a preference