diff --git a/app-accessibility/whisper-cpp/metadata.xml b/app-accessibility/whisper-cpp/metadata.xml
index 16a958c862..dc2bdb1239 100644
--- a/app-accessibility/whisper-cpp/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-accessibility/whisper-cpp/metadata.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,4 @@
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">ggml-org/whisper.cpp</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>zl29ah@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Sergey Alirzaev</name>
-	</maintainer>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-misc/vrms-gentoo/metadata.xml b/app-misc/vrms-gentoo/metadata.xml
index 8e068b6d7d..51e1c2c6d3 100644
--- a/app-misc/vrms-gentoo/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-misc/vrms-gentoo/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
-		<email>zl29ah@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Sergey Alirzaev</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">z411/vrms-gentoo</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/dev-python/bleak/metadata.xml b/dev-python/bleak/metadata.xml
index 4083b64b87..2a6f1f8d29 100644
--- a/dev-python/bleak/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/bleak/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>zl29ah@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Sergey Alirzaev</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">bleak</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">hbldh/bleak</remote-id>
diff --git a/sci-misc/llama-cpp/metadata.xml b/sci-misc/llama-cpp/metadata.xml
index 1dd2e6d959..964a43e52c 100644
--- a/sci-misc/llama-cpp/metadata.xml
+++ b/sci-misc/llama-cpp/metadata.xml
@@ -14,8 +14,4 @@
 		<flag name="opencl">Build an OpenCL backend, so far only works on Adreno and Intel GPUs</flag>
 		<flag name="openssl">Use openssl to support HTTPS</flag>
 	</use>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>zl29ah@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Sergey Alirzaev</name>
-	</maintainer>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sys-fs/xfs_undelete/metadata.xml b/sys-fs/xfs_undelete/metadata.xml
index a69318f584..b0c5e37fb6 100644
--- a/sys-fs/xfs_undelete/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-fs/xfs_undelete/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>zl29ah@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Sergey Alirzaev</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 	It tries to recover all inodes on an XFS filesystem marked as deleted.
 	It's rather dumb, it just looks for the magic string IN\0\0\3\2\0\0 and