diff --git a/dev-python/pylev/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pylev/metadata.xml
index cb2cc6da3b277..a914219acbff0 100644
--- a/dev-python/pylev/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pylev/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
     <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <stabilize-allarches/>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">toastdriven/pylev</remote-id>