diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index a9f1f852..79389c9c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ jobs:
           pip install --upgrade setuptools pip
           pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager --pre -e .[test] pytest-cov codecov 'coverage<5'
           pip freeze
-      - name: Check types
-        run: mypy jupyter_client/manager.py jupyter_client/multikernelmanager.py jupyter_client/client.py jupyter_client/blocking/client.py jupyter_client/asynchronous/client.py jupyter_client/channels.py jupyter_client/session.py jupyter_client/adapter.py jupyter_client/connect.py jupyter_client/consoleapp.py jupyter_client/jsonutil.py jupyter_client/kernelapp.py jupyter_client/launcher.py jupyter_client/threaded.py
       - name: Run the tests
         run: py.test --cov jupyter_client -v jupyter_client
       - name: Code coverage
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7863f426..00000000
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-version: 2
-sphinx:
-  configuration: docs/conf.py
-python:
-  version: 3.7
-  install:
-    # install docs requirements
-    - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
-    # install jupyter-client itself
-    - method: pip
-      path: .