diff --git a/swh/scheduler/__init__.py b/swh/scheduler/__init__.py
index 02a493b..d706ed7 100644
--- a/swh/scheduler/__init__.py
+++ b/swh/scheduler/__init__.py
@@ -1,70 +1,69 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 
 # Percentage of tasks with priority to schedule
 PRIORITY_SLOT = 0.6
 
-DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH = 'backend/scheduler'
 DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
     'scheduler': ('dict', {
         'cls': 'local',
         'args': {
             'db': 'dbname=softwareheritage-scheduler-dev',
         },
     })
 }
 # current configuration. To be set by the config loading mechanism
 CONFIG = {}
 
 
 def compute_nb_tasks_from(num_tasks):
     """Compute and returns the tuple, number of tasks without priority,
        number of tasks with priority.
 
     Args:
         num_tasks (int):
 
     Returns:
         tuple number of tasks without priority (int), number of tasks with
         priority (int)
 
     """
     if not num_tasks:
         return None, None
     return (int((1 - PRIORITY_SLOT) * num_tasks),
             int(PRIORITY_SLOT * num_tasks))
 
 
 def get_scheduler(cls, args={}):
     """
     Get a scheduler object of class `scheduler_class` with arguments
     `scheduler_args`.
 
     Args:
         scheduler (dict): dictionary with keys:
 
         cls (str): scheduler's class, either 'local' or 'remote'
         args (dict): dictionary with keys, default to empty.
 
     Returns:
         an instance of swh.scheduler, either local or remote:
 
         local: swh.scheduler.backend.SchedulerBackend
         remote: swh.scheduler.api.client.RemoteScheduler
 
     Raises:
         ValueError if passed an unknown storage class.
 
     """
 
     if cls == 'remote':
         from .api.client import RemoteScheduler as SchedulerBackend
     elif cls == 'local':
         from .backend import SchedulerBackend
     else:
         raise ValueError('Unknown swh.scheduler class `%s`' % cls)
 
     return SchedulerBackend(**args)