diff --git a/app-benchmarks/siege/metadata.xml b/app-benchmarks/siege/metadata.xml
index e22c263e15620..52e7091e5b29f 100644
--- a/app-benchmarks/siege/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-benchmarks/siege/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" proxied="yes">
-		<email>andreacerisara@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Andrea Cerisara</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription>
 		Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let
 		web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet.
diff --git a/app-text/xmldiff/metadata.xml b/app-text/xmldiff/metadata.xml
index d91236e8ec606..32124eb5f86a5 100644
--- a/app-text/xmldiff/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/xmldiff/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" proxied="yes">
-		<email>andreacerisara@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Andrea Cerisara</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription>
 		A python tool that figures out the differences between two
 		similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does.
diff --git a/dev-python/google-auth-oauthlib/metadata.xml b/dev-python/google-auth-oauthlib/metadata.xml
index 4944f500ac013..ad78d5438748e 100644
--- a/dev-python/google-auth-oauthlib/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/google-auth-oauthlib/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>andreacerisara@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Andrea Cerisara</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/pgspecial/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pgspecial/metadata.xml
index 4b55905d911bf..2e7271b51206a 100644
--- a/dev-python/pgspecial/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pgspecial/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" proxied="yes">
-		<email>andreacerisara@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Andrea Cerisara</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription>
 		PGSpecial provides an API to execute meta-commands
 		(AKA "special", or "backslash commands") on PostgreSQL.
diff --git a/net-dns/openresolv/metadata.xml b/net-dns/openresolv/metadata.xml
index ab4e99bc58009..3c58a0219fbe2 100644
--- a/net-dns/openresolv/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-dns/openresolv/metadata.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>andreacerisara@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Andrea Cerisara</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<stabilize-allarches/>
 </pkgmetadata>