diff --git a/media-fonts/iosevka/metadata.xml b/media-fonts/iosevka/metadata.xml
index c56169210d5be..953797c6c7377 100644
--- a/media-fonts/iosevka/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-fonts/iosevka/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>david.truby@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>David Truby</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-      <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-      <name>Gentoo Proxy Maintainers Project</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">b5invis/iosevka</remote-id>
   </upstream>