diff --git a/dev-php/adodb/metadata.xml b/dev-php/adodb/metadata.xml
index 8abdc5150a6b8..373d163a05fb3 100644
--- a/dev-php/adodb/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-php/adodb/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
     <email>php-bugs@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>PHP</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>mjo@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Michael Orlitzky</name>
-  </maintainer>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="sourceforge">adodb</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="github">ADOdb/ADOdb</remote-id>