diff --git a/app-text/asciidoc/metadata.xml b/app-text/asciidoc/metadata.xml
index 47206531efeb3..fe643142c872e 100644
--- a/app-text/asciidoc/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/asciidoc/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-    <name>Thamognya Kodi</name>
-    <email>contact@thamognya.com</email>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-    <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="sourceforge">asciidoc</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="github">asciidoc-py/asciidoc-py</remote-id>