diff --git a/controllers/common/common.go b/controllers/common/common.go
index eee77237..1762d0c8 100644
--- a/controllers/common/common.go
+++ b/controllers/common/common.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
 // Copyright Contributors to the Open Cluster Management project
 
+// +kubebuilder:skip
 package common
 
 import (
diff --git a/controllers/propagator/rootpolicy_controller.go b/controllers/propagator/rootpolicy_controller.go
index 78e90cda..39530fdb 100644
--- a/controllers/propagator/rootpolicy_controller.go
+++ b/controllers/propagator/rootpolicy_controller.go
@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ func (r *RootPolicyReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, request ctrl.Reque
 	return reconcile.Result{}, nil
 }
 
-//+kubebuilder:object:root=true
-//+kubebuilder:skip
-
 // updateExistingReplicas lists all existing replicated policies for this root policy, and sends
 // events for each of them to the replicated policy reconciler. This will trigger updates on those
 // replicated policies, for example when the root policy spec changes, or when the replicated