diff --git a/dev-python/rustworkx/metadata.xml b/dev-python/rustworkx/metadata.xml
index 5025a8788f351..8205f0b6eb17f 100644
--- a/dev-python/rustworkx/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/rustworkx/metadata.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription>
 	rustworkx is a general purpose graph library for python3 written in Rust to take advantage of the performance and safety that Rust provides. It was built as a replacement for qiskit's previous (and current) networkx usage (hence the name) but is designed to provide a high performance general purpose graph library for any python application. The project was originally started to build a faster directed graph to use as the underlying data structure for the DAG at the center of qiskit-terra's transpiler, but it has since grown to cover all the graph usage in Qiskit and other applications.
 	</longdescription>