diff --git a/dev-python/backports-unittest-mock/metadata.xml b/dev-python/backports-unittest-mock/metadata.xml
index f926043548223..990ba3292766f 100644
--- a/dev-python/backports-unittest-mock/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/backports-unittest-mock/metadata.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">backports.unittest_mock</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">jaraco/backports.unittest_mock</remote-id>