diff --git a/app-dicts/myspell-en/metadata.xml b/app-dicts/myspell-en/metadata.xml
index 93a7869b248e0..c3bda71eefca0 100644
--- a/app-dicts/myspell-en/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-dicts/myspell-en/metadata.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>onigino@protonmail.com</email>
-		<name>Gino McCarty</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<stabilize-allarches/>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-dicts/myspell-large-en/metadata.xml b/app-dicts/myspell-large-en/metadata.xml
index 3cce00df2c318..115e9d64a6695 100644
--- a/app-dicts/myspell-large-en/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-dicts/myspell-large-en/metadata.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>onigino@protonmail.com</email>
-		<name>Gino McCarty</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/aiofiles/metadata.xml b/dev-python/aiofiles/metadata.xml
index 76c3732367007..b7130989dcd52 100644
--- a/dev-python/aiofiles/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/aiofiles/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>onigino@protonmail.com</email>
-		<name>Gino McCarty</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="project">
 		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Python</name>
diff --git a/dev-python/aiohttp-cors/metadata.xml b/dev-python/aiohttp-cors/metadata.xml
index f9238f3d147b6..446ce2d975873 100644
--- a/dev-python/aiohttp-cors/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/aiohttp-cors/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>onigino@protonmail.com</email>
-		<name>Gino McCarty</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<stabilize-allarches/>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">aio-libs/aiohttp-cors</remote-id>
diff --git a/x11-misc/copyq/metadata.xml b/x11-misc/copyq/metadata.xml
index b99cf962ccecd..7606b24718c3f 100644
--- a/x11-misc/copyq/metadata.xml
+++ b/x11-misc/copyq/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>onigino@protonmail.com</email>
-		<name>Gino</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">hluk/CopyQ</remote-id>
 	</upstream>