diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a63453d2b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+-r requirements.txt
+
+fabric
+transifex-client
+mysqlclient==1.3.12
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a47943bb6d..75ac589f62 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,4 +15,3 @@ django-formtools==2.1
 qrcode==5.3
 requests==2.18.4
 requests_oauthlib==0.8.0
-mysqlclient==1.3.12