diff --git a/dev-python/pyarrow/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pyarrow/metadata.xml
index 31b943af57ccd..2c0892a26deae 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyarrow/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pyarrow/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 		<email>tupone@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Tupone Alfredo</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="parquet">Enables read/write parquet data format</flag>
 	</use>