diff --git a/app-text/sigil/metadata.xml b/app-text/sigil/metadata.xml
index e1e7bf268edb9..53f4fedf5f1de 100644
--- a/app-text/sigil/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/sigil/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>tomboy64@sina.cn</email>
-		<name>M.B.</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor.
 		It is designed to edit books in ePub format.</longdescription>
 	<upstream>