diff --git a/dev-python/ipykernel/metadata.xml b/dev-python/ipykernel/metadata.xml
index 5f929028ff4e6..25e389950c4d2 100644
--- a/dev-python/ipykernel/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/ipykernel/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
     <email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="pypi">ipykernel</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="github">ipython/ipykernel</remote-id>