diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 65fb87863b3..04969f1c6fe 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     HADOOP-9216. CompressionCodecFactory#getCodecClasses should trim the
     result of parsing by Configuration. (Tsuyoshi Ozawa via todd)
 
+    HADOOP-9231. Parametrize staging URL for the uniformity of
+    distributionManagement. (Konstantin Boudnik via suresh)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-8866. SampleQuantiles#query is O(N^2) instead of O(N). (Andrew Wang
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 905f954294a..f62b94748c1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
 
   <distributionManagement>
     <repository>
-      <id>apache.staging.https</id>
-      <name>Apache Release Distribution Repository</name>
-      <url>https://repository.apache.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2</url>
+      <id>${distMgmtStagingId}</id>
+      <name>${distMgmtStagingName}</name>
+      <url>${distMgmtStagingUrl}</url>
     </repository>
     <snapshotRepository>
-      <id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
+      <id>${distMgmtSnapshotsId}</id>
       <name>${distMgmtSnapshotsName}</name>
       <url>${distMgmtSnapshotsUrl}</url>
     </snapshotRepository>
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
 
   <repositories>
     <repository>
-      <id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
+      <id>${distMgmtSnapshotsId}</id>
       <name>${distMgmtSnapshotsName}</name>
       <url>${distMgmtSnapshotsUrl}</url>
     </repository>
@@ -79,8 +79,12 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
   </organization>
 
   <properties>
+    <distMgmtSnapshotsId>apache.snapshots.https</distMgmtSnapshotsId>
     <distMgmtSnapshotsName>Apache Development Snapshot Repository</distMgmtSnapshotsName>
     <distMgmtSnapshotsUrl>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots</distMgmtSnapshotsUrl>
+    <distMgmtStagingId>apache.staging.https</distMgmtStagingId>
+    <distMgmtStagingName>Apache Release Distribution Repository</distMgmtStagingName>
+    <distMgmtStagingUrl>https://repository.apache.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2</distMgmtStagingUrl>
   </properties>
 
   <modules>