diff --git a/dev-python/backrefs/metadata.xml b/dev-python/backrefs/metadata.xml
index 7ab61b0537294..5c2d652494c8d 100644
--- a/dev-python/backrefs/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/backrefs/metadata.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">facelessuser/backrefs</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">backrefs</remote-id>