diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e81e88c521c..b6dcef0afbc 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1706,6 +1706,9 @@
       <site>
           <id>hbase.apache.org</id>
           <name>HBase Website at hbase.apache.org</name>
+          <!-- On why this is the tmp dir and not hbase.apache.org, see
+               https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7593?focusedCommentId=13555866&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13555866
+               -->
           <url>file:///tmp</url>
       </site>
   </distributionManagement>