diff --git a/dev-python/pbr/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pbr/metadata.xml
index a7f104aa2180b..aa7c0d6945630 100644
--- a/dev-python/pbr/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pbr/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
     <email>openstack@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Openstack</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <longdescription lang="en">
     Python Build Reasonableness
   PBR is a library that injects some useful and sensible default behaviors into your setuptools run.