diff --git a/dev-python/os-diskconfig-python-novaclient-ext/metadata.xml b/dev-python/os-diskconfig-python-novaclient-ext/metadata.xml
index be78f813d795a..e3d562fda91ad 100644
--- a/dev-python/os-diskconfig-python-novaclient-ext/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/os-diskconfig-python-novaclient-ext/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
     <email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Matthew Thode</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Python</name>
-  </maintainer>
   <longdescription lang="en">
     Disk Config extension for python-novaclient
   </longdescription>