diff --git a/dev-python/rfc3986/metadata.xml b/dev-python/rfc3986/metadata.xml
index cb470c58926df..5768f78b1c5ab 100644
--- a/dev-python/rfc3986/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/rfc3986/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
     <email>openstack@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Openstack</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <stabilize-allarches/>
   <use>
     <flag name="idna">enable support for the IDNA specification (RFC 5891)</flag>