diff --git a/dev-python/cx_Freeze/metadata.xml b/dev-python/cx_Freeze/metadata.xml
index 42f837e8e71f0..07d102cf67964 100644
--- a/dev-python/cx_Freeze/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/cx_Freeze/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 		<email>pinkbyte@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Sergey Popov</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">cx-Freeze</remote-id>