diff --git a/x11-wm/subtle/metadata.xml b/x11-wm/subtle/metadata.xml
index dbe1a9d351c1d..58b7a8b3fd20c 100644
--- a/x11-wm/subtle/metadata.xml
+++ b/x11-wm/subtle/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="person">
-		<email>radhermit@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Tim Harder</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach
 		of tiling: Instead of relying on predefined layouts, subtle divides the