diff --git a/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml b/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml
index a0b29038e0..f2595f64cf 100644
--- a/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>marco@scardovi.com</email>
-		<name>Marco Scardovi</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">atom/atom</remote-id>
 	</upstream>