diff --git a/net-im/prosody/metadata.xml b/net-im/prosody/metadata.xml
index 93caf7b71d755..469f03f567b79 100644
--- a/net-im/prosody/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-im/prosody/metadata.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>klausman@gentoo.org</email>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <use>
     <flag name="libevent">Use libevent for event handling</flag>
     <flag name="zlib">Support for compressing XMPP streams with mod_compression</flag>