diff --git a/dev-python/python-novaclient/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-novaclient/metadata.xml
index 70e970120f655..58529b73f74d0 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-novaclient/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/python-novaclient/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
     <email>openstack@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Openstack</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <longdescription lang="en">
     This is a client for the OpenStack Nova API.
   There's a Python API (the novaclient module),