diff --git a/app-editors/leo/metadata.xml b/app-editors/leo/metadata.xml
index a22c2f852dc6b..4e9fe29019cee 100644
--- a/app-editors/leo/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-editors/leo/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 -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">leo-editor/leo-editor</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="sourceforge">leo</remote-id>