diff --git a/dev-python/python-utils/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-utils/metadata.xml
index 5625092ae80d8..3f5d040fa93e0 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-utils/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/python-utils/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 		<email>chainsaw@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Tony Vroon</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<stabilize-allarches/>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">python-utils</remote-id>