diff --git a/dev-python/irc/metadata.xml b/dev-python/irc/metadata.xml
index ed4ab5f0cd271..b16e9f1c7ce9a 100644
--- a/dev-python/irc/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/irc/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 		<email>sbraz@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Louis Sautier</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription>
 		This project includes an event-driven IRC client framework written in Python,
 		as well as an object-oriented wrapper class and some example programs.