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@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ You also need to enable the following options on your project:
 4. Go into the "Variables" section of your package setup and **add common
    variables** corresponding to the usernames and passwords for uploading
    wheels and documentation tar balls to our (web DAV) server, as well as PyPI
-   packages.  The names of the variables and values are known, you can copy
-   them from any project you have access to (e.g.,
-   [check them at bob.admin](https://gitlab.idiap.ch/bob/bob.admin/variables))
+   packages.  You can copy required values from [the "Variables" section of
+   bob.admin](https://gitlab.idiap.ch/bob/bob.admin/variables). N.B.: You
+   **must** be logged into gitlab to access that page.
 5. Make sure to **disable** the service "Build e-mails" (those are very
    annoying)
 6. Setup the coverage regular expression under "CI/CD pipelines" to have the