diff --git a/etc/TODO b/etc/TODO
index 5c55a8b9992..4d0bfd1c2a0 100644
--- a/etc/TODO
+++ b/etc/TODO
@@ -1713,17 +1713,8 @@ apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done this.]
 
 (Obsolete, since gmalloc.c is nowadays only used on MS-DOS.)
 
-** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable
-It might be better to replace with Lisp the part of make-docfile that
-produces the etc/DOC file by scanning *.el files, for example by
-reusing the code in the byte compiler or in autoload.el that already
-scans *.el files.
-https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2012-06/msg00037.html
-https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2021-05/msg00235.html
-
 ** Eliminate the etc/DOC file altogether
-As an alternative to the previous item, we could try and eliminate the
-DOC file altogether.  See
+We could try and eliminate the DOC file altogether.  See
 https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2021-05/msg00237.html
 
 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode