diff --git a/dev-python/python-slugify/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-slugify/metadata.xml
index 8ba37583de7b7..25f3739412949 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-slugify/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/python-slugify/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">python-slugify</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">un33k/python-slugify</remote-id>