diff --git a/dev-python/elasticsearch/metadata.xml b/dev-python/elasticsearch/metadata.xml
index 1c1a994f1ff72..91989160ef37e 100644
--- a/dev-python/elasticsearch/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/elasticsearch/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<doc>https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io/</doc>
 		<remote-id type="github">elastic/elasticsearch-py</remote-id>