diff --git a/app-editors/atom/metadata.xml b/app-editors/atom/metadata.xml
index 8278b52b97286..f35968a5e1fdf 100644
--- a/app-editors/atom/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-editors/atom/metadata.xml
@@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>elvis@magic.io</email>
-		<name>Elvis Pranskevichus</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="person">
 		<email>cynede@gentoo.org</email>
 	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">atom/node-spellchecker</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/app-eselect/eselect-electron/metadata.xml b/app-eselect/eselect-electron/metadata.xml
index b300580fbde40..d1ae01fef6da8 100644
--- a/app-eselect/eselect-electron/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-eselect/eselect-electron/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>elvis@magic.io</email>
-		<name>Elvis Pranskevichus</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!--maintainer-needed-->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">elprans/eselect-electron</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/dev-python/uvloop/metadata.xml b/dev-python/uvloop/metadata.xml
index 605410286c3ec..046b9f3e8b972 100644
--- a/dev-python/uvloop/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/uvloop/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>elvis@magic.io</email>
-    <name>Elvis Pranskevichus</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-  </maintainer>
   <maintainer type="project">
     <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
   </maintainer>
diff --git a/dev-util/electron/metadata.xml b/dev-util/electron/metadata.xml
index def1c51b38bc6..fde29b9218375 100644
--- a/dev-util/electron/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/electron/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>elvis@magic.io</email>
-		<name>Elvis Pranskevichus</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!--maintainer-needed-->
 	<longdescription>Electron is a cross platform application development framework based on web technologies based on Chromium</longdescription>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="gconf">Use gnome-base/gconf</flag>