diff --git a/dev-python/confuse/metadata.xml b/dev-python/confuse/metadata.xml
index b32d7cb6cb716..2a2cef2f94537 100644
--- a/dev-python/confuse/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/confuse/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>bernardo@standard.ai</email>
-		<name>Bernardo Meurer</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Gentoo Proxy Maintainers Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		Confuse is a configuration library for Python that uses YAML. It takes
 		care of defaults, overrides, type checking, command-line integration,