diff --git a/sys-process/parallel/metadata.xml b/sys-process/parallel/metadata.xml
index 83b9892c516fb..d6c7df5da5ed2 100644
--- a/sys-process/parallel/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-process/parallel/metadata.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>eschwartz@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Eli Schwartz</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 	GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel locally or
 	using remote machines. A job is typically a single command or a small