diff --git a/dev-python/wsproto/metadata.xml b/dev-python/wsproto/metadata.xml
index 67543673df39e..40a8e5411350c 100644
--- a/dev-python/wsproto/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/wsproto/metadata.xml
@@ -1,17 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>oleksandr.trotsenko@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Oleksandr Trotsenko</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">python-hyper/wsproto</remote-id>
 		<doc>https://wsproto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</doc>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/python-hyper/wsproto/issues</bugs-to>
 	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
+