diff --git a/dev-python/blosc/metadata.xml b/dev-python/blosc/metadata.xml
index 05e88ce58aa76..b264b7dd62c9e 100644
--- a/dev-python/blosc/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/blosc/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
     <email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <longdescription lang="en">
     blosc is a high performance compressor optimized for binary
     data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache