diff --git a/x11-misc/nitrogen/metadata.xml b/x11-misc/nitrogen/metadata.xml
index 11058dd6ade60..115e9d64a6695 100644
--- a/x11-misc/nitrogen/metadata.xml
+++ b/x11-misc/nitrogen/metadata.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>etc404@protonmail.com</email>
-		<name>Dylan Wolf</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/x11-wm/bspwm/metadata.xml b/x11-wm/bspwm/metadata.xml
index f426ad7d85e53..297ea5190a642 100644
--- a/x11-wm/bspwm/metadata.xml
+++ b/x11-wm/bspwm/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>etc404@protonmail.com</email>
-		<name>Dylan Wolf</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">baskerville/bspwm</remote-id>
 	</upstream>