diff --git a/dev-python/ipython_genutils/metadata.xml b/dev-python/ipython_genutils/metadata.xml
index c9deb0b0985af..6f8e61b033cde 100644
--- a/dev-python/ipython_genutils/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/ipython_genutils/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
     <email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <longdescription>
     This package contains some common utilities shared by Jupyter and
     IPython projects during The Big Split. As soon as possible, those