diff --git a/www-client/ripe-atlas-cousteau/metadata.xml b/www-client/ripe-atlas-cousteau/metadata.xml
index 0bb7716808628..5920d5aac55ca 100644
--- a/www-client/ripe-atlas-cousteau/metadata.xml
+++ b/www-client/ripe-atlas-cousteau/metadata.xml
@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>gentoo@danielquinn.org</email>
-		<name>Daniel Quinn</name>
-		<description>Proxied maintainer; set to assignee in all bugs</description>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">ripe.atlas.cousteau</remote-id>
 	</upstream>