diff --git a/scripts/generate-matrix-org-assets b/scripts/generate-matrix-org-assets
index cb3cf455..ed08f81d 100755
--- a/scripts/generate-matrix-org-assets
+++ b/scripts/generate-matrix-org-assets
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ cd `dirname $0`/..
 
 mkdir -p assets
 
+# generate specification/proposals.rst
+./scripts/proposals.py
+
 # generate the spec docs
 ./scripts/gendoc.py -d assets/spec
 
diff --git a/scripts/proposals.py b/scripts/proposals.py
index aa2252bc..b489f0d2 100755
--- a/scripts/proposals.py
+++ b/scripts/proposals.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import requests
 import re
 from datetime import datetime
-from m2r import convert as m2r
 
 pagecount = 1
 authors = set()
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ issues = {}
 for label in labels:
     issues[label] = getbylabel(label)
 
-text_file = open("../specification/proposals.rst", "w")
+text_file = open("specification/proposals.rst", "w")
 
 text_file.write("Tables of Tracked Proposals\n---------------------------\n\n")
 
diff --git a/scripts/requirements.txt b/scripts/requirements.txt
index 9886fce4..37d99dd3 100644
--- a/scripts/requirements.txt
+++ b/scripts/requirements.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ pygments >= 2.2.0
 Jinja2 >= 2.9.6
 jsonschema >= 2.6.0
 PyYAML >= 3.12
+requests >= 2.18.4