diff --git a/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml b/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml
index 203024baca..a0b29038e0 100644
--- a/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>marco@scardovi.com</email>
+		<name>Marco Scardovi</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">atom/atom</remote-id>
 	</upstream>