diff --git a/dev-python/xdg/metadata.xml b/dev-python/xdg/metadata.xml
index 01f861cee2a71..420cce7cc4fd7 100644
--- a/dev-python/xdg/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/xdg/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>
 	<stabilize-allarches/>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">xdg</remote-id>