diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 652cd9da..f9afabad 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ t_test_request_LDADD = $(LIBUNWIND_LIBS)
 
 noinst_HEADERS   = $(hdr)
 EXTRA_DIST = \
+	t\README \
 	mod_skeleton.c \
 	configparser.y \
 	mod_ssi_exprparser.y \
diff --git a/src/t/README b/src/t/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dab8f53e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/t/README
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Tests have been written in the interest of "Something is better than nothing".
+
+As of this writing, the aim is to increase test coverage using simple smoke
+tests and to replace the (much) slower Perl tests in tests/*.t