diff --git a/tools/build-release-tarball b/tools/build-release-tarball
index 9bcc4d4dc0..cfd105819a 100755
--- a/tools/build-release-tarball
+++ b/tools/build-release-tarball
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ mkdir -p "var/log"
 # Some settings need to be updated for update-prod-static to work
 #
 # TODO: Would be much better to instead run the below tools with some
-# sort of environment hack to make settings.VOYAGER=True so that we
-# don't need to create this dummy secrets file.
+# sort of environment hack so that we don't need to create this dummy
+# secrets file.
 cat >> zproject/prod_settings_template.py <<EOF
 DEBUG = False
 EOF
diff --git a/zproject/settings.py b/zproject/settings.py
index bb70ac9088..4175221d5e 100644
--- a/zproject/settings.py
+++ b/zproject/settings.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
     'RATE_LIMITING': True,
     'REDIS_HOST': '127.0.0.1',
     'REDIS_PORT': 6379,
-    # The following bots only exist in non-VOYAGER installs
+    # The following bots are optional system bots.
     'ERROR_BOT': None,
     'NEW_USER_BOT': None,
     'NAGIOS_STAGING_SEND_BOT': None,
@@ -239,13 +239,6 @@ if ADMINS == "":
     ADMINS = (("Zulip Administrator", ZULIP_ADMINISTRATOR),)
 MANAGERS = ADMINS
 
-# Voyager is a production zulip server that is not zulip.com or
-# staging.zulip.com VOYAGER is the standalone all-on-one-server
-# production deployment model for based on the original Zulip
-# ENTERPRISE implementation.  We expect most users of the open source
-# project will be using VOYAGER=True in production.
-VOYAGER = PRODUCTION
-
 ########################################################################
 # STANDARD DJANGO SETTINGS
 ########################################################################