diff --git a/velocity/pom.xml b/velocity/pom.xml
index 778e446c..9639240d 100644
--- a/velocity/pom.xml
+++ b/velocity/pom.xml
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@
                         </relocation>
                     </relocations>
                     <artifactSet>
+                        <!--org.slf4j is part of velocity api and runtime,
+                        shading and relocating it causes logger injection to fail-->
                         <excludes>
                             <exclude>org.slf4j:*</exclude>
                         </excludes>