diff --git a/sys-cluster/gearmand/metadata.xml b/sys-cluster/gearmand/metadata.xml
index 313e1ab7d05b6..d08fb72aef868 100644
--- a/sys-cluster/gearmand/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-cluster/gearmand/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>pavel.stratil-jun@fenix.cz</email>
-    <description>Proxied co-maintainer, assign bugs to him</description>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-  </maintainer>
+<!-- maintainer-needed -->  
   <use>
     <flag name="memcache">
       Support memcache daemon (via <pkg>dev-libs/libmemcached</pkg>)