diff --git a/dev-lang/rust-bin/metadata.xml b/dev-lang/rust-bin/metadata.xml
index b5d78dd6edde8..4fafafaf6dbb2 100644
--- a/dev-lang/rust-bin/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lang/rust-bin/metadata.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>rust@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Rust Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
 		<email>randy@electronsweatshop.com</email>
 		<name>Randy Barlow</name>
@@ -13,10 +17,6 @@
 		<email>matoro_gentoo@matoro.tk</email>
 		<name>Matoro Mahri</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>rust@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Rust Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="clippy">Install clippy, Rust code linter</flag>
 		<flag name="rustfmt">Install rustfmt, Rust code formatter</flag>
diff --git a/dev-lang/rust/metadata.xml b/dev-lang/rust/metadata.xml
index 94b0499334fd8..b2fefe002396f 100644
--- a/dev-lang/rust/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lang/rust/metadata.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>rust@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Rust Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
 		<email>randy@electronsweatshop.com</email>
 		<name>Randy Barlow</name>
@@ -13,10 +17,6 @@
 		<email>matoro_gentoo@matoro.tk</email>
 		<name>Matoro Mahri</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>rust@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Rust Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="clippy">Install clippy, Rust code linter</flag>
 		<flag name="dist">Install dist tarballs (used for bootstrapping)</flag>
diff --git a/sys-devel/rust-std/metadata.xml b/sys-devel/rust-std/metadata.xml
index afe7492af107a..0a8bca9f29de7 100644
--- a/sys-devel/rust-std/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-devel/rust-std/metadata.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>rust@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Rust Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
 		<email>randy@electronsweatshop.com</email>
 		<name>Randy Barlow</name>
@@ -13,10 +17,6 @@
 		<email>matoro_gentoo@matoro.tk</email>
 		<name>Matoro Mahri</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>rust@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Rust Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription>
 		The Rust Standard Library is the foundation of portable Rust software,
 		a set of minimal and battle-tested shared abstractions for the broader Rust ecosystem.
diff --git a/virtual/rust/metadata.xml b/virtual/rust/metadata.xml
index c417957ed3fb1..bebd08664bcde 100644
--- a/virtual/rust/metadata.xml
+++ b/virtual/rust/metadata.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>rust@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Rust Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
 		<email>randy@electronsweatshop.com</email>
 		<name>Randy Barlow</name>
@@ -13,10 +17,6 @@
 		<email>matoro_gentoo@matoro.tk</email>
 		<name>Matoro Mahri</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>rust@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Rust Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="profiler">Build the profiler runtime and rust-demangler tool (needed for '-C profile-generate' or '-C instrument-coverage' codegen opts)</flag>
 		<flag name="rustfmt">Install rustfmt, Rust code formatter</flag>