diff --git a/sys-process/parallel/metadata.xml b/sys-process/parallel/metadata.xml
index 666f249115b9b..ad396001fdbd1 100644
--- a/sys-process/parallel/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-process/parallel/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>ryoichiro.suzuki@gmail.com</email>
-  <name>Ryoichiro Suzuki</name>
-</maintainer>
-<maintainer type="project">
-  <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-  <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-</maintainer>
+<!-- maintainer-needed -->	
 <longdescription lang="en">
 GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel locally or
 using remote machines. A job is typically a single command or a small