diff --git a/dev-python/toro/metadata.xml b/dev-python/toro/metadata.xml
index 214465d529968..f9ea20bf41e14 100644
--- a/dev-python/toro/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/toro/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Python</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!--maintainer-needed-->
   <longdescription>
     A set of locking and synchronizing primitives analogous to those in Python’s
     threading module or Gevent’s coros, for use with Tornado’s gen.engine.