diff --git a/app-text/sword/metadata.xml b/app-text/sword/metadata.xml
index 1e5f7dd2bb680..9ed49698bee2b 100644
--- a/app-text/sword/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/sword/metadata.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
+	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
+		<email>nicolas.parlant@parhuet.fr</email>
+		<name>Nicolas PARLANT</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription>
 The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free Bible software
 project. Its purpose is to create tools that allow programmers and Bible