diff --git a/www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml b/www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml
index d8926e49eccfa..f04ccf361ab61 100644
--- a/www-client/surfraw/metadata.xml
+++ b/www-client/surfraw/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>jnrowe@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>James Rowe</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of
 		popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims