diff --git a/tools/announce-wrangler.py b/tools/announce-wrangler.py
deleted file mode 100644
index cf9248642..000000000
--- a/tools/announce-wrangler.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,159 +0,0 @@
-import commands
-import xml.dom.minidom
-import glob
-import wordpresslib # http://www.blackbirdblog.it/programmazione/progetti/28
-import ConfigParser
-import os
-import re
-
-doaps = glob.glob("*.doap")
-
-if len(doaps)==0:
-    print 'Please run this from the top-level directory.'
-
-description=str(xml.dom.minidom.parse(doaps[0]).getElementsByTagName('shortdesc')[0].firstChild.toxml().strip())
-
-program_name = doaps[0][:-5]
-print program_name
-
-markup = {
-    'text': {
-        'open': '  *',
-        'newline': '   ',
-        'close': '',
-        },
-    'html': {
-        'open': '<li>',
-        'newline': '',
-        'close': '</li>',
-        },
-}
-
-def text_list(list, type):
-    result = []
-    for entry in list:
-        result.append(markup[type]['open'])
-        for word in entry.split():
-            if len(result[-1]+word)>75:
-                result.append(markup[type]['newline'])
-            result[-1] = result[-1] + ' ' + word
-        if result[-1].strip()=='':
-            result = result[:-1]
-        result[-1] = result[-1] + markup[type]['close']
-    return '\n'.join(result)
-
-news = file('NEWS')
-news_entry = []
-header_count = 0
-
-while header_count<2:
-    line = news.readline().replace('\n', '')
-    news_entry.append(line)
-    if line.startswith('='):
-        header_count = header_count + 1
-
-news.close()
-
-version = news_entry[0]
-news_entry = news_entry[2:-2]
-
-print version
-majorminor = '.'.join(version.split('.')[:2])
-md5s = commands.getoutput('ssh master.gnome.org md5sum /ftp/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/%s/%s-%s.tar*' % (majorminor, program_name, version)).split()
-if len(md5s)!=4:
-    print 'WARNING: There were not two known tarballs'
-
-md5_values = {}
-
-for i in range(0, len(md5s), 2):
-    a = md5s[i+1]
-    md5_values[a[a.rindex('.'):]] = md5s[i]
-
-print md5_values
-
-changes = []
-translations = ''
-
-reading_changes = False
-reading_translations = False
-for line in news_entry:
-    line = line.replace('(#', '(GNOME bug ').strip()
-    if line.startswith('-'):
-        changes.append(line[2:])
-        reading_changes = True
-    elif reading_changes:
-        if line=='':
-            reading_changes = False
-        else:
-            changes[-1] = changes[-1] + ' ' + line
-    elif line=='Translations':
-        reading_translations = True
-    elif reading_translations:
-        translations = translations + ' ' + line
-
-translations = translations[1:]
-
-text_links = []
-for i in ('.bz2', '.gz'):
-    text_links.append('%s http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/%s/%s-%s.tar%s' % (
-            md5_values[i], majorminor, program_name, version, i))
-
-text_version = """\
-What is it ?
-============
-%s
-
-What's changed ?
-================
-%s
-
-Translations:
-%s
-
-Where can I get it ?
-====================
-%s""" % (text_list([description], 'text'),
-                text_list(changes, 'text'),
-                text_list([translations], 'text'),
-                text_list(text_links, 'text'))
-
-print "============ x8 x8 x8 ===== SEND THIS TO gnome-announce-list"
-print text_version
-print "============ x8 x8 x8 ===== ENDS"
-
-translations = re.sub('\((.*)\)',
-                      '(<a href="http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/metacity/trunk/po/\\1.po">\\1</a>)',
-                      translations)
-
-html_version = """\
-<b>What is it ?</b><br />
-<ul>%s</ul>
-
-<b>What's changed ?</b><br />
-<ul>%s</ul>
-
-<i>Translations:</i><br />
-<ul>%s</ul>
-
-<b>Where can I get it ?</b><br />
-<ul>%s</ul>""" % (text_list([description], 'html'),
-                text_list(changes, 'html'),
-                text_list([translations], 'html'),
-                text_list(text_links, 'html'))
-
-cp = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
-cp.read(os.environ['HOME']+'/.config/metacity/tools.ini')
-
-wp = wordpresslib.WordPressClient(
-    cp.get('release-wrangler', 'blogurl'),
-    cp.get('release-wrangler', 'bloguser'),
-    cp.get('release-wrangler', 'blogpass'))
-wp.selectBlog(cp.getint('release-wrangler', 'blognumber'))
-post = wordpresslib.WordPressPost()
-post.title = '%s %s released' % (program_name, version)
-post.description = html_version
-# appears to have been turned off-- ask jdub
-#idPost = wp.newPost(post, False)
-
-print html_version
-
diff --git a/tools/commit-wrangler.py b/tools/commit-wrangler.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ec68b71d..000000000
--- a/tools/commit-wrangler.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-#
-# commit-wrangler.py - basic script to commit patches, primarily for
-# Metacity, might be useful for others. In early stages of
-# development.
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2008 Thomas Thurman
-# 
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
-# License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-# General Public License for more details.
-# 
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-import time
-import commands
-import sys
-import os
-import posixpath
-import ConfigParser
-import re
-
-# FIXME: Needs tidying into separate functions.
-
-# FIXME: Some of this is duplicated from release-wrangler.
-# This should go in a common library when the dust has settled.
-
-# FIXME: Some way of updating Bugzilla when we mention a bug,
-# and including the revision number, would be really useful.
-
-# FIXME: This should co-operate with patch-wrangler in that
-# p-w should find out the name of a patch's submitter from bugzilla
-# and store it in a dotfile, and then we can use it here.
-# Also, it should find out and store the bug number, so we can
-# write it as "(Bug #nnn)", which will make the previous paragraph's
-# idea even more useful.
-
-def get_up_to_date():
-  "First step is always to get up to date."
-  os.system("svn up")
-
-def report_error(message):
-  print message
-  sys.exit(255)
-
-def favourite_editor():
-  e = os.environ
-  if e.has_key('VISUAL'): return e['VISUAL']
-  if e.has_key('EDITOR'): return e['EDITOR']
-  if os.access('/usr/bin/nano', os.F_OK):
-    return '/usr/bin/nano'
-  report_error("I can't find an editor for you!")
-
-def wordwrap(str, prefix=''):
-  "Really simple wordwrap"
-
-  # Ugly hack:
-  # We know that all open brackets are preceded by spaces.
-  # We don't want to split on these spaces. Therefore:
-  str = str.replace(' (','(')
-
-  result = ['']
-  for word in str.split():
-
-    if result[-1]=='':
-      candidate = prefix + word
-    else:
-      candidate = '%s %s' % (result[-1], word)
-
-    if len(candidate)>80:
-      result.append(prefix+word)
-    else:
-      result[-1] = candidate
-
-  return '\n'.join(result).replace('(',' (')
-
-#####################
-
-change_filename = 'ChangeLog'
-
-get_up_to_date()
-
-cp = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
-cp.read(os.environ['HOME']+'/.config/metacity/tools.ini')
-
-os.environ['CHANGE_LOG_NAME'] = cp.get('commit-wrangler', 'name')
-os.environ['CHANGE_LOG_EMAIL_ADDRESS'] = cp.get('commit-wrangler', 'address')
-
-print commands.getoutput('moap cl prep')
-
-time_before = os.stat(change_filename)[8]
-os.system(favourite_editor()+' +6 %s ' % (change_filename))
-
-if os.stat(change_filename)[8] == time_before:
-    print 'No change; aborting:'
-    print commands.getoutput('svn revert '+change_filename)
-    sys.exit(0)
-
-# Update the changelog
-
-checkin = commands.getoutput("moap cl ci")
-
-print re.sub(".*Committed revision (\\d+).*", 'http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/metacity?rev=\\1&view=rev', checkin)
-
diff --git a/tools/patch-wrangler.py b/tools/patch-wrangler.py
deleted file mode 100644
index c5e80c62f..000000000
--- a/tools/patch-wrangler.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-
-# Little script to grab a patch, compile it, and make it.
-
-# Copyright (C) 2008 Thomas Thurman
-# 
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
-# License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-# General Public License for more details.
-# 
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-
-import os
-import sys
-import posixpath
-
-# FIXME: What would be lovely is an Epiphany extension to call this from Bugzilla pages
-
-# FIXME: Should be possible (but currently isn't) to get this from the patch number
-program = 'metacity'
-
-if len(sys.argv)<2:
-  print 'Specify patch number'
-  sys.exit(255)
-
-patchnum = sys.argv[1]
-
-patchdir = posixpath.expanduser('~/patch/%s/%s' % (program, patchnum))
-
-os.makedirs(patchdir)
-os.chdir(patchdir)
-
-if os.system("svn co svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/%s/trunk ." % (program))!=0:
-  print "Checkout failed."
-  sys.exit(255)
-
-if os.system("wget http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=%s -O - -q|patch -p 0" % (patchnum))!=0:
-  print "Patch failed."
-  sys.exit(255)
-
-if os.system("./autogen.sh")!=0:
-  print "Autogen failed."
-  sys.exit(255)
-
-if os.system("make")!=0:
-  print "Make failed."
-  sys.exit(255)
-
-print
-print "It all seems to have worked. Don't look so surprised."
-print "Dropping you into a new shell now so you're in the right"
-print "directory; this does mean you'll have to exit twice when"
-print "you're finished."
-print
-
-shell = '/bin/sh'
-if os.environ.has_key('SHELL'):
-  shell = os.environ['SHELL']
-
-if os.system(shell):
-  print "Couldn't launch the shell, though."
-  sys.exit(255)
diff --git a/tools/release-wrangler.py b/tools/release-wrangler.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1dcd5fe33..000000000
--- a/tools/release-wrangler.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,375 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-#
-# release-wrangler.py - very basic release system, primarily for
-# Metacity, might be useful for others. In very early stages of
-# development.
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2008 Thomas Thurman
-# 
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
-# License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-# General Public License for more details.
-# 
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-import os
-import posixpath
-import re
-import sys
-import commands
-import time
-import commands
-
-def report_error(message):
-  print message
-  sys.exit(255)
-
-def get_up_to_date():
-  "First step is always to get up to date."
-  os.system("svn up")
-
-# yes, I know this is MY username. I will come back and fix it
-# later, but for now there is a lot else to do. FIXME
-your_username = 'Thomas Thurman  <tthurman@gnome.org>'
-
-def changelog_and_checkin(filename, message):
-  changelog = open('ChangeLog.tmp', 'w')
-  changelog.write('%s  %s\n\n        * %s: %s\n\n' % (
-    time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d',time.gmtime()),
-    your_username,
-    filename,
-    message))
-
-  for line in open('ChangeLog').readlines():
-    changelog.write(line)
-
-  changelog.close()
-  os.rename('ChangeLog.tmp', 'ChangeLog')
-
-  if os.system('svn commit -m "%s"' % (message.replace('"','\\"')))!=0:
-    report_error("Could not commit; bailing.")
-
-def check_we_are_up_to_date():
-  changed = []
-  for line in commands.getoutput('/usr/bin/svn status').split('\n'):
-    if line!='' and (line[0]=='C' or line[0]=='M'):
-      if line.find('release-wrangler.py')==-1 and line.find('ChangeLog')==-1:
-        # we should be insensitive to changes in this script itself
-        # to avoid chicken-and-egg problems
-        changed.append(line[1:].lstrip())
-
-  if changed:
-    report_error('These files are out of date; I can\'t continue until you fix them: ' + \
-      ', '.join(changed))
-
-def version_numbers():
-  # FIXME: This is all very metacity-specific. Compare fusa, etc
-  """Okay, read through configure.in and find who and where we are.
-
-  We also try to figure out where the next micro version number
-  will be; some programs (e.g. Metacity) use a custom numbering
-  scheme, and if they have a list of numbers on the line before the
-  micro version then that will be used. Otherwise we will just
-  increment."""
-
-  version = {}
-  previous_line = ''
-  for line in file("configure.in").readlines():
-    product_name = re.search("^AC_INIT\(\[([^\]]*)\]", line)
-    if product_name:
-      version['name'] = product_name.group(1)
-
-    version_number = re.search("^m4_define\(\[.*_(.*)_version\], \[(\d+)\]", line)
-
-    if version_number:
-      version_type = version_number.group(1)
-      version_value = int(version_number.group(2))
-
-      version[version_type] = version_value
-
-      if version_type == 'micro':
-        group_of_digits = re.search("^\#\s*([0-9, ]+)\n$", previous_line)
-        if group_of_digits:
-          versions = [int(x) for x in group_of_digits.group(1).split(',')]
-
-          if version_value in versions:
-            try:
-              version_index = versions.index(version_value)+1
-
-              if versions[version_index] == version['micro']:
-                # work around metacity giving "1" twice
-                version_index += 1
-
-              version['micro_next'] = versions[version_index]
-            except:
-              report_error("You gave a list of micro version numbers, but we've used them up!")
-          else:
-            report_error("You gave a list of micro version numbers, but the current one wasn't in it! Current is %s and your list is %s" % (
-              `version_value`, `versions`))
-
-    previous_line = line
-
-  if not 'micro_next' in version:
-    version['micro_next'] = version['micro']+1
-
-  version['string'] = '%(major)s.%(minor)s.%(micro)s' % (version)
-  version['filename'] = '%(name)s-%(string)s.tar.gz' % (version)
-
-  return version
-
-def check_file_does_not_exist(version):
-  if os.access(version['filename'], os.F_OK):
-    report_error("Sorry, you already have a file called %s! Please delete it or move it first." % (version['filename']))
-
-def is_date(str):
-  return len(str)>4 and str[4]=='-'
-
-def scan_changelog(version):
-  changelog = file("ChangeLog").readlines()
-
-  # Find the most recent release.
-
-  release_date = None
-
-  for line in changelog:
-    if is_date(line):
-      release_date = line[:10]
-
-    if "Post-release bump to" in line:
-      changelog = changelog[:changelog.index(line)+1]
-      break
-
-  contributors = {}
-  thanks = ''
-  entries = []
-
-  def assumed_surname(name):
-    if name=='': return ''
-    # might get more complicated later, but for now...
-    return name.split()[-1]
-
-  def assumed_forename(name):
-    if name=='': return ''
-    return name.split()[0]
-
-  bug_re = re.compile('bug \#?(\d+)', re.IGNORECASE)
-  hash_re = re.compile('\#(\d+)')
-
-  for line in changelog:
-    if is_date(line):
-      line = line[10:].lstrip()
-      line = line[:line.find('<')].rstrip()
-      contributors[assumed_surname(line)] = line
-      entries.append('(%s)' % (assumed_forename(line)))
-    else:
-      match = bug_re.search(line)
-      if not match: match = hash_re.search(line)
-      if match:
-        entries[-1] += ' (#%s)' % (match.group(1))
-
-  # FIXME: getting complex enough we should be returning a dictionary
-  return (contributors, changelog, entries, release_date)
-
-def wordwrap(str, prefix=''):
-  "Really simple wordwrap"
-
-  # Ugly hack:
-  # We know that all open brackets are preceded by spaces.
-  # We don't want to split on these spaces. Therefore:
-  str = str.replace(' (','(')
-
-  result = ['']
-  for word in str.split():
-
-    if result[-1]=='':
-      candidate = prefix + word
-    else:
-      candidate = '%s %s' % (result[-1], word)
-
-    if len(candidate)>80:
-      result.append(prefix+word)
-    else:
-      result[-1] = candidate
-
-  return '\n'.join(result).replace('(',' (')
-
-def favourite_editor():
-  e = os.environ
-  if e.has_key('VISUAL'): return e['VISUAL']
-  if e.has_key('EDITOR'): return e['EDITOR']
-  if os.access('/usr/bin/nano', os.F_OK):
-    return '/usr/bin/nano'
-  report_error("I can't find an editor for you!")
-
-def edit_news_entry(version):
-
-  # FIXME: still needs a lot of tidying up. Translator stuff especially needs to be
-  # factored out into a separate function.
-
-  (contributors, changelog, entries, release_date) = scan_changelog(version)
-
-  contributors_list = contributors.keys()
-  contributors_list.sort()
-  thanksline = ', '.join([contributors[x] for x in contributors_list])
-  thanksline = thanksline.replace(contributors[contributors_list[-1]], 'and '+contributors[contributors_list[-1]])
-
-  thanks = '%s\n%s\n\n' % (version['string'], '='*len(version['string']))
-  thanks += wordwrap('Thanks to %s for improvements in this version.' % (thanksline))
-  thanks += '\n\n'
-  for line in entries:
-    thanks += '  - xxx %s\n' % (line)
-
-  # and now pick up the translations.
-
-  translations = {}
-  language_re = re.compile('\*\s*(.+)\.po')
-
-  for line in file("po/ChangeLog").readlines():
-    match = language_re.search(line)
-    if match:
-      translations[match.group(1)] = 1
-    if is_date(line) and line[:10]<release_date:
-      break
-
-  translator_list = translations.keys()
-  translator_list.sort()
-
-  last_translator_re = re.compile('Last-Translator:([^<"]*)', re.IGNORECASE)
-
-  def translator_name(language):
-    name = 'unknown'
-
-    if ',' in language:
-      language = language[:language.find(',')].replace('.po','')
-
-    filename = 'po/%s.po' % (language)
-
-    if not os.access(filename, os.F_OK):
-      # Never mind the translator being unknown, we don't even
-      # know about the language!
-      return 'Mystery translator (%s)'  % (language)
-
-    for line in file(filename).readlines():
-      match = last_translator_re.search(line)
-      if match:
-        name = match.group(1).rstrip().lstrip()
-        break
-
-    return "%s (%s)" % (name, language)
-
-  thanks += '\nTranslations\n'
-  thanks += wordwrap(', '.join([translator_name(x) for x in translator_list]), '  ')
-  thanks += '\n\n'
-
-  changes = '## '+ ' '.join(changelog).replace('\n', '\n## ')
-
-  filename = posixpath.expanduser("~/.release-wrangler-%(name)s-%(string)s.txt" % version)
-  tmp = open(filename, 'w')
-  tmp.write('## You are releasing %(name)s, version %(major)s.%(minor)s.%(micro)s.\n' % version)
-  tmp.write('## The text at the foot of the page is the part of the ChangeLog which\n')
-  tmp.write('## has changed since the last release. Please summarise it.\n')
-  tmp.write('## Anything preceded by a # is ignored.\n')
-  tmp.write(thanks)
-  tmp.write(changes)
-  tmp.close()
-
-  os.system(favourite_editor()+' +6 %s ' % (filename))
-  # FIXME: if they abort, would be useful to abort here too
-
-  # Write it out to NEWS
-
-  version['announcement'] = ''
-
-  news_tmp = open('NEWS.tmp', 'a')
-  for line in open(filename, 'r').readlines():
-    if line=='' or line[0]!='#':
-      news_tmp.write(line)
-      version['announcement'] += line
-
-  for line in open('NEWS').readlines():
-    news_tmp.write(line)
-
-  news_tmp.close()
-
-  os.rename('NEWS.tmp', 'NEWS')
-  changelog_and_checkin('NEWS', '%(major)s.%(minor)s.%(micro)s release.' % (version))
-
-def build_it_all(version):
-  "Now build the thing."
-  autogen_prefix= '/prefix' # FIXME: this is specific to tthurman's laptop!
-
-  # FIXME: These should use os.system
-
-  if os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, './autogen.sh', './autogen.sh', '--prefix', autogen_prefix) != 0:
-    print 'autogen failed'
-    sys.exit(255)
-    
-  if os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, '/usr/bin/make', '/usr/bin/make') != 0:
-    print 'make failed'
-    sys.exit(255)
-
-  if os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, '/usr/bin/make', '/usr/bin/make', 'install') != 0:
-    print 'install failed'
-    sys.exit(255)
-
-  if os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, '/usr/bin/make', '/usr/bin/make', 'distcheck') != 0:
-    print 'distcheck failed'
-    sys.exit(255)
-
-  if not os.access(version['filename'], os.F_OK):
-    print "Sorry, we don't appear to have a file called %s!" % (archive_filename)
-    sys.exit(255)
-
-def upload(version):
-  # No, we won't have a configuration option to set your name on master.g.o; that's
-  # what ~/.ssh/config is for.
-
-  print "Uploading..."
-  upload_result = commands.getstatusoutput('scp %s master.gnome.org:' % (version['filename']))
-
-  if upload_result[0]!=0:
-    report_error("There appears to have been an uploading problem: %d\n%s\n" % (upload_result[0], upload_result[1]))
-
-def increment_version(version):
-  configure_in = file('configure.in.tmp', 'w')
-  for line in file('configure.in'):
-    if re.search("^m4_define\(\[.*_micro_version\], \[(\d+)\]", line):
-      line = line.replace('[%(micro)s]' % version, '[%(micro_next)s]' % version)
-    configure_in.write(line)
-  
-  configure_in.close()
-  os.rename('configure.in.tmp', 'configure.in')
-
-  changelog_and_checkin('configure.in', 'Post-release bump to %(major)s.%(minor)s.%(micro_next)s.' % version)
-
-def tag_the_release(version):
-  version['ucname'] = version['name'].upper()
-  if os.system("svn cp -m release . svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/%(name)s/tags/%(ucname)s_%(major)s_%(minor)s_%(micro)s" % (version))!=0:
-    report_error("Could not tag; bailing.")
-
-def md5s(version):
-  return commands.getstatusoutput('ssh master.gnome.org "cd /ftp/pub/GNOME/sources/%(name)s/%(major)s.%(minor)s/;md5sum $(name)s-%(major)s.%(minor)s.%(micro)s.tar*"' % (version))
-
-def main():
-  get_up_to_date()
-  check_we_are_up_to_date()
-  version = version_numbers()
-  check_file_does_not_exist(version)
-  edit_news_entry(version)
-  build_it_all(version)
-  tag_the_release(version)
-  increment_version(version)
-  upload(version)
-  print version['announcement']
-  print "-- Done --"
-
-if __name__=='__main__':
-  main()
-