diff --git a/app-vim/gentoo-syntax/metadata.xml b/app-vim/gentoo-syntax/metadata.xml
index 63ddedabb8002..374f1cd98d230 100644
--- a/app-vim/gentoo-syntax/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-vim/gentoo-syntax/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
     <email>vim@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Gentoo Vim Project</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>yngwin@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Ben de Groot</name>
-  </maintainer>
   <use>
     <flag name="ignore-glep31">Remove GLEP 31 (UTF-8 file encodings) settings</flag>
   </use>