diff --git a/app-admin/certmgr/metadata.xml b/app-admin/certmgr/metadata.xml
index 303da7fa2e48a..e0546fc77f98b 100644
--- a/app-admin/certmgr/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-admin/certmgr/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>mrueg@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Manuel Rüger</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">cloudflare/certmgr</remote-id>
 	</upstream>