diff --git a/dev-util/shards/metadata.xml b/dev-util/shards/metadata.xml
index 2bf78bc95a8a3..5097e12e349a8 100644
--- a/dev-util/shards/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/shards/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 		<email>longlene@gmail.com</email>
 		<name>Lixiao Chen</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Proxy Maintainers Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		Dependency manager for the Crystal language
 	</longdescription>