diff --git a/dev-python/doit/metadata.xml b/dev-python/doit/metadata.xml
index f27c9e4c5eedb..3d876fb1cea61 100644
--- a/dev-python/doit/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/doit/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
     <email>yngwin@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Ben de Groot</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Python</name>
-  </maintainer>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="pypi">doit</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="sourceforge">python-doit</remote-id>