diff --git a/dev-python/svg-path/metadata.xml b/dev-python/svg-path/metadata.xml
index 5eefd54371ddf..6f2217ce87c8c 100644
--- a/dev-python/svg-path/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/svg-path/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>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		The svg.path package provides a collection of Python objects that
 		implement the different path commands in SVG, as well as a parser for