diff --git a/dev-cpp/fbthrift/metadata.xml b/dev-cpp/fbthrift/metadata.xml
index 2d21b70819..e234dbf77e 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/fbthrift/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-cpp/fbthrift/metadata.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM 'http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd'>
 <pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 Thrift is a serialization and RPC framework for service communication. Thrift enables these features in all major languages, and there is strong support for C++, Python, Hack, and Java. Most services at Facebook are written using Thrift for RPC, and some storage systems use Thrift for serializing records on disk.