diff --git a/dev-python/fitsio/metadata.xml b/dev-python/fitsio/metadata.xml
index d9c6cc1903930..0468ed326a7ee 100644
--- a/dev-python/fitsio/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/fitsio/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 		<email>sci-astronomy@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Astronomy Project</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		Fitsio provides an easy to use object-oriented API including
 		providing a Numpy interface to FITS files read from CFITSIO. It