diff --git a/app-backup/kopia-ui-bin/metadata.xml b/app-backup/kopia-ui-bin/metadata.xml
index 682a0187c3..dc10b8ef24 100644
--- a/app-backup/kopia-ui-bin/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-backup/kopia-ui-bin/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>zhuyifei1999@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>YiFei Zhu</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">kopia/kopia</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/app-backup/kopia/metadata.xml b/app-backup/kopia/metadata.xml
index c77a5b59aa..6c293899ae 100644
--- a/app-backup/kopia/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-backup/kopia/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>zhuyifei1999@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>YiFei Zhu</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">kopia/kopia</remote-id>
 	</upstream>