diff --git a/dev-lang/gleam/metadata.xml b/dev-lang/gleam/metadata.xml
index 2dd94ab13a..85ced36850 100644
--- a/dev-lang/gleam/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lang/gleam/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>matt@offtopica.uk</email>
-    <name>Matt Smith</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription lang="en">
     Gleam is a statically typed functional programming language for
     building scalable concurrent systems. It compiles to Erlang and