diff --git a/.coverage b/.coverage
deleted file mode 100644
index 4cfa3f881ff..00000000000
Binary files a/.coverage and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ae3e48f7ea..00000000000
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-[run]
-omit =
-    # exclude tests files from coverage calculation
-    pymc/tests/test_*.py
diff --git a/.github/workflows/arviz_compat.yml b/.github/workflows/arviz_compat.yml
index cd580150724..363cf81bfcb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/arviz_compat.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/arviz_compat.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ on:
   pull_request:
   push:
     branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - ".github/workflows/*"
+      - "pymc/**"
+      - "setup.py"
+      - "pyproject.toml"
+      - "buildosx"
+      - "conda-envs/**"
+      - "codecov.yml"
 
 jobs:
   pytest:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/jaxtests.yml b/.github/workflows/jaxtests.yml
index a27d3b6b578..a45280478c6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/jaxtests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/jaxtests.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ on:
   pull_request:
   push:
     branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - ".github/workflows/*"
+      - "pymc/**"
+      - "setup.py"
+      - "pyproject.toml"
+      - "buildosx"
+      - "conda-envs/**"
+      - "codecov.yml"
 
 jobs:
   pytest:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
index d231a8ea3cf..565aec8e656 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ on:
   pull_request:
   push:
     branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - ".github/workflows/*"
+      - "pymc/**"
+      - "setup.py"
+      - "pyproject.toml"
+      - "buildosx"
+      - "conda-envs/**"
+      - "codecov.yml"
 
 
 # Tests are split into multiple jobs to accelerate the CI.
diff --git a/build_and_deploy_docs.sh b/build_and_deploy_docs.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c3a5a43c31..00000000000
--- a/build_and_deploy_docs.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-latesttag=$(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)
-echo checking out ${latesttag}
-git checkout ${latesttag}
-git submodule update --remote
-pushd docs/source
-make html
-ghp-import -c docs.pymc.io -n -p _build/html/
-popd
diff --git a/codecov.yml b/codecov.yml
index b0ab9d3c073..6f6450db430 100644
--- a/codecov.yml
+++ b/codecov.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ coverage:
         threshold: 1%
         base: auto
 
+ignore:
+  - "pymc/tests/*"
+
 comment:
   layout: "reach, diff, flags, files"
   behavior: default
diff --git a/conda-envs/environment-dev-py37.yml b/conda-envs/environment-dev-py37.yml
index 9b07b0f4afc..6c491c23373 100644
--- a/conda-envs/environment-dev-py37.yml
+++ b/conda-envs/environment-dev-py37.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ dependencies:
 - numpy>=1.15.0,<1.22.0
 - numpydoc>=0.9
 - pandas>=0.24
+- pip
 - pre-commit>=2.8.0
 - pydata-sphinx-theme
 - pytest-cov>=2.5
diff --git a/conda-envs/environment-dev-py38.yml b/conda-envs/environment-dev-py38.yml
index 17c3f42869a..b88d9550cb9 100644
--- a/conda-envs/environment-dev-py38.yml
+++ b/conda-envs/environment-dev-py38.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ dependencies:
 - numpy>=1.15.0,<1.22.0
 - numpydoc>=0.9
 - pandas>=0.24.0
+- pip
 - pre-commit>=2.8.0
 - pydata-sphinx-theme
 - pytest-cov>=2.5
diff --git a/conda-envs/environment-dev-py39.yml b/conda-envs/environment-dev-py39.yml
index cbdc89390ac..bd04e480e07 100644
--- a/conda-envs/environment-dev-py39.yml
+++ b/conda-envs/environment-dev-py39.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ dependencies:
 - numpy>=1.15.0,<1.22.0
 - numpydoc>=0.9
 - pandas
+- pip
 - pre-commit>=2.8.0
 - pydata-sphinx-theme
 - pytest-cov>=2.5
diff --git a/fast_build_docs.sh b/fast_build_docs.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 4030f4d9f2a..00000000000
--- a/fast_build_docs.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-git --git-dir=docs/source/pymc-examples/.git --work-tree=docs/source/pymc-examples checkout main
-pushd docs/source
-make clean
-make html
-popd