diff --git a/dev-python/imageio/metadata.xml b/dev-python/imageio/metadata.xml
index 00e4692d0a4d7..e06b08ec97ba8 100644
--- a/dev-python/imageio/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/imageio/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		Imageio is a Python library that provides an easy interface to read
 		and write a wide range of image data, including animated images,