diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ec80083b089d..d0cdde9ec07f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ This is for 'core', 'perf', 'contrib:hadoop-consumer', 'contrib:hadoop-producer'
 ### Publishing the jar for all version of Scala and for all projects to maven ###
     ./gradlew uploadArchivesAll
 
-Please note for this to work you need to create/update `~/.gradle/gradle.properties` and assign the following variables
+Please note for this to work you should create/update `~/.gradle/gradle.properties` and assign the following variables
 
     mavenUrl=
     mavenUsername=
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 447ee442105e..4827769a3f8e 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@ version=0.8.1
 scalaVersion=2.8.0
 task=build
 
+mavenUrl=
+mavenUsername=
+mavenPassword=