diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index e1bf0e9..ad8ef12 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -4,10 +4,15 @@
 Building HTrace requires
 
 * Java 1.7 at least.
-* Apache Maven 3.x.
-* Go programming language, version 1.3 or higher (for htrace-htraced)
+* Apache Maven 3.x
+* Go programming language, version 1.4 or higher (for htrace-htraced)
 * The development package for leveldb (for htrace-htraced)
 
+Note that at the moment, only Maven 3.0.4 should be used to create HTrace
+releases - see [HTRACE-236](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-236)
+(Support building release artifacts with Maven versions other than 3.0.4) for
+details.
+
 After installing dependencies, to build, run:
 
    $ mvn install
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd48635..39a2331 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,15 +17,8 @@
 
 HTrace
 ======
-HTrace is a tracing framework for use with distributed systems.
+HTrace is a tracing framework for use with distributed systems.  See the
+documentation at [src/main/site/markdown/index.md] or at
+http://htrace.incubator.apache.org for more details.
 
-See documentation at src/main/site/markdown/index.md or at http://htrace.incubator.apache.org.
-
-Building
---------
-Only Maven 3.0.4 should be used to create HTrace releases - see [HTRACE-236](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-236)
-(Support building release artifacts with Maven versions other than 3.0.4) for details.  
-
-To get around this while using Maven 3.3 [HTRACE-234](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-234)
-you can run maven with `-DcreateDependencyReducedPom=false`.  
-
+For help on building the software, see [BUILDING.txt].