diff --git a/dev-python/json5/metadata.xml b/dev-python/json5/metadata.xml
index 1a3e3394c5a95..c312488136d2d 100644
--- a/dev-python/json5/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/json5/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 		<email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<stabilize-allarches/>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">json5</remote-id>