*/*: drop to maintainer-needed

Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/guru/pull/141
Signed-off-by: Julien Roy <julien@jroy.ca>

62 files changed, 61 insertions, 279 deletions

diff --git a/acct-group/canna/metadata.xml b/acct-group/canna/metadata.xml
index 40bc55973..115e9d64a 100644
--- a/acct-group/canna/metadata.xml
+++ b/acct-group/canna/metadata.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/acct-user/canna/metadata.xml b/acct-user/canna/metadata.xml
index 40bc55973..115e9d64a 100644
--- a/acct-user/canna/metadata.xml
+++ b/acct-user/canna/metadata.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-i18n/canna/metadata.xml b/app-i18n/canna/metadata.xml
index b685390b7..a47620132 100644
--- a/app-i18n/canna/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-i18n/canna/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <use>
     <flag name="canuum">Build canuum</flag>
   </use>
diff --git a/app-misc/cpufetch/metadata.xml b/app-misc/cpufetch/metadata.xml
index 7ff878d01..5b7dd2f50 100644
--- a/app-misc/cpufetch/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-misc/cpufetch/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/Dr-Noob/cpufetch/issues</bugs-to>
 		<remote-id type="github">Dr-Noob/cpufetch</remote-id>
diff --git a/app-misc/diff-so-fancy/metadata.xml b/app-misc/diff-so-fancy/metadata.xml
index 655a6118a..a02460a35 100644
--- a/app-misc/diff-so-fancy/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-misc/diff-so-fancy/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-        <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-    </maintainer>
+    <!-- maintainer-needed -->
     <upstream>
         <remote-id type="github">so-fancy/diff-so-fancy</remote-id>
     </upstream>
diff --git a/app-misc/wego/metadata.xml b/app-misc/wego/metadata.xml
index 1a96178a2..e2985a50e 100644
--- a/app-misc/wego/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-misc/wego/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">schachmat/wego</remote-id>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/schachmat/wego/issues</bugs-to>
diff --git a/app-text/cmark-gfm/metadata.xml b/app-text/cmark-gfm/metadata.xml
index 3a779341f..89e0d1237 100644
--- a/app-text/cmark-gfm/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/cmark-gfm/metadata.xml
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
   <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="person">
     <email>dev@dyama.net</email>
     <name>Daichi Yamamoto</name>
   </maintainer>
diff --git a/dev-cpp/cpptoml/metadata.xml b/dev-cpp/cpptoml/metadata.xml
index e8c97590b..bfae0bb6d 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/cpptoml/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-cpp/cpptoml/metadata.xml
@@ -8,11 +8,7 @@ Targets: TOML v0.5.0 as of August 2018.
 
 This includes support for the new DateTime format, inline tables, multi-line basic and raw strings, digit separators, hexadecimal integers, octal integers, binary integers, and float special values.
 	</longdescription>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">ddemidov/vexcl</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/dev-cpp/parallel-hashmap/metadata.xml b/dev-cpp/parallel-hashmap/metadata.xml
index 59cd2de2e..ef53df07f 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/parallel-hashmap/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-cpp/parallel-hashmap/metadata.xml
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM 'https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd'>
 <pkgmetadata>
 	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="person">
 			<email>denis7774@gmail.com</email>
 			<name>Denis Reva</name>
 	</maintainer>
diff --git a/dev-cpp/wangle/metadata.xml b/dev-cpp/wangle/metadata.xml
index b21cd7830..07acbac72 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/wangle/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-cpp/wangle/metadata.xml
@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@
 		<name>Denis Reva</name>
 		<description>rarogcmex</description>
 	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 Client / Server abstraction
 
diff --git a/dev-libs/fsst/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/fsst/metadata.xml
index 33688a695..6c27b9bee 100644
--- a/dev-libs/fsst/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/fsst/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 FSST: Fast Static Symbol Table compression
 see the PVLDB paper https://github.com/cwida/fsst/raw/master/fsstcompression.pdf
diff --git a/dev-libs/libdwarf/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libdwarf/metadata.xml
index a2416432a..5326540c3 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libdwarf/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/libdwarf/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">davea42/libdwarf-code</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/dev-libs/nativefiledialog-extended/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/nativefiledialog-extended/metadata.xml
index d54cb952a..6d97c17ec 100644
--- a/dev-libs/nativefiledialog-extended/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/nativefiledialog-extended/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 A small C library with that portably invokes native file open, folder select and save dialogs. Write dialog code once and have it pop up native dialogs on all supported platforms. Avoid linking large dependencies like wxWidgets and Qt.
 
diff --git a/dev-libs/zfp/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/zfp/metadata.xml
index 7c06e5227..7ac90d7bb 100644
--- a/dev-libs/zfp/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/zfp/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription lang="en">
 zfp is a compressed format for representing multidimensional floating-point and integer arrays. zfp provides compressed-array classes that support high throughput read and write random access to individual array elements. zfp also supports serial and parallel (OpenMP and CUDA) compression of whole arrays, e.g., for applications that read and write large data sets to and from disk.
 
diff --git a/dev-ml/bheap/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/bheap/metadata.xml
index 5a995d57e..9c6fcea77 100644
--- a/dev-ml/bheap/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ml/bheap/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<doc>https://backtracking.github.io/bheap</doc>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/backtracking/bheap/issues</bugs-to>
diff --git a/dev-ml/cdrom/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/cdrom/metadata.xml
index 834fd510c..d9b224d34 100644
--- a/dev-ml/cdrom/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ml/cdrom/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/xapi-project/cdrom/issues</bugs-to>
 		<remote-id type="github">xapi-project/cdrom</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-ml/domain-name/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/domain-name/metadata.xml
index e4a1f89bf..353918cf9 100644
--- a/dev-ml/domain-name/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ml/domain-name/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">A domain name is a sequence of labels separated by dots, such as `foo.example`.
 Each label may contain any bytes. The length of each label may not exceed 63
 charactes.	The total length of a domain name is limited to 253 (byte
diff --git a/dev-ml/gmap/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/gmap/metadata.xml
index c88b7bcd4..39e4e5520 100644
--- a/dev-ml/gmap/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ml/gmap/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">Gmap exposes the functor `Make` which takes a key type (a
 [GADT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_algebraic_data_type) 'a key)
 and outputs a type-safe Map where each 'a key is associated with a 'a value.
diff --git a/dev-ml/pecu/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/pecu/metadata.xml
index d65a0218e..ceeabfc6f 100644
--- a/dev-ml/pecu/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ml/pecu/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">A non-blocking encoder/decoder of Quoted-Printable according to
 RFC2045 and RFC2047 (about encoded-word). Useful to translate contents of emails.</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
diff --git a/dev-ml/randomconv/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/randomconv/metadata.xml
index 42960ca28..c60b3d40b 100644
--- a/dev-ml/randomconv/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ml/randomconv/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">Given a function which produces random byte vectors, convert it to
 a number of your choice (int8/int16/int32/int64/int/float).</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
diff --git a/dev-ml/stringext/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/stringext/metadata.xml
index a6481207e..9495e08b0 100644
--- a/dev-ml/stringext/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ml/stringext/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/rgrinberg/stringext/issues</bugs-to>
 		<remote-id type="github">rgrinberg/stringext</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/aspectlib/metadata.xml b/dev-python/aspectlib/metadata.xml
index ca0665914..d6cb899e2 100644
--- a/dev-python/aspectlib/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/aspectlib/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 An aspect-oriented programming, monkey-patch and decorators library. It is useful when changing behavior in existing code is desired. It includes tools for debugging and testing: simple mock/record and a complete capture/replay framework.
   </longdescription>
diff --git a/dev-python/autoflake/metadata.xml b/dev-python/autoflake/metadata.xml
index e010fd6ab..227c02478 100644
--- a/dev-python/autoflake/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/autoflake/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription lang="en">
 autoflake removes unused imports and unused variables from Python code. It makes use of pyflakes to do this.
 
diff --git a/dev-python/avro/metadata.xml b/dev-python/avro/metadata.xml
index 0fa4fa2dc..23cf0889f 100644
--- a/dev-python/avro/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/avro/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">avro</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/dev-python/click-repl/metadata.xml b/dev-python/click-repl/metadata.xml
index fd4394efb..df73244b4 100644
--- a/dev-python/click-repl/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/click-repl/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">click-contrib/click-repl</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">click-repl</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/daiquiri/metadata.xml b/dev-python/daiquiri/metadata.xml
index aaa3dbd62..7251a0c50 100644
--- a/dev-python/daiquiri/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/daiquiri/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 The daiquiri library provides an easy way to configure logging. It also provides some custom formatters and handlers.
 	</longdescription>
diff --git a/dev-python/dasbus/metadata.xml b/dev-python/dasbus/metadata.xml
index 1c6228f65..0c6890055 100644
--- a/dev-python/dasbus/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/dasbus/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/rhinstaller/dasbus/issues</bugs-to>
 		<remote-id type="github">rhinstaller/dasbus</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/hunter/metadata.xml b/dev-python/hunter/metadata.xml
index fd1c48aaa..e7325fbe1 100644
--- a/dev-python/hunter/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/hunter/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 Hunter is a flexible code tracing toolkit, not for measuring coverage, but for debugging, logging, inspection and other nefarious purposes. It has a simple Python API, a convenient terminal API and a CLI tool to attach to processes.
 Design notes
diff --git a/dev-python/jsonpath-rw-ext/metadata.xml b/dev-python/jsonpath-rw-ext/metadata.xml
index a7b01c4a0..928177122 100644
--- a/dev-python/jsonpath-rw-ext/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/jsonpath-rw-ext/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/sileht/python-jsonpath-rw-ext/issues</bugs-to>
     <remote-id type="pypi">jsonpath-rw-ext</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/jsonpath-rw/metadata.xml b/dev-python/jsonpath-rw/metadata.xml
index 1c62170b4..870607e0a 100644
--- a/dev-python/jsonpath-rw/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/jsonpath-rw/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <description>comaintainers welcome</description>
-    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/kennknowles/python-jsonpath-rw/issues</bugs-to>
     <remote-id type="pypi">jsonpath-rw</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/manhole/metadata.xml b/dev-python/manhole/metadata.xml
index d82459b6c..be54c622f 100644
--- a/dev-python/manhole/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/manhole/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 Manhole is in-process service that will accept unix domain socket connections and present the stacktraces for all threads and an interactive prompt. It can either work as a python daemon thread waiting for connections at all times or a signal handler (stopping your application and waiting for a connection).
 
diff --git a/dev-python/pg8000/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pg8000/metadata.xml
index 7c04c30e4..70e9a6031 100644
--- a/dev-python/pg8000/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pg8000/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/tlocke/pg8000/issues</bugs-to>
     <remote-id type="pypi">pg8000</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/psycopg2cffi/metadata.xml b/dev-python/psycopg2cffi/metadata.xml
index 4bdbafa5a..984630c12 100644
--- a/dev-python/psycopg2cffi/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/psycopg2cffi/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/chtd/psycopg2cffi/issues</bugs-to>
     <remote-id type="pypi">psycopg2cffi</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/pygaljs/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pygaljs/metadata.xml
index 9b461634c..d5c9ec090 100644
--- a/dev-python/pygaljs/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pygaljs/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">ionelmc/python-pygaljs</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="pypi">pygaljs</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/pymemcache/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pymemcache/metadata.xml
index c40feb94b..72251d569 100644
--- a/dev-python/pymemcache/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pymemcache/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 A comprehensive, fast, pure-Python memcached client.
 
diff --git a/dev-python/pyodbc/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pyodbc/metadata.xml
index 0caf78e63..ee51824da 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyodbc/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pyodbc/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/issues</bugs-to>
     <remote-id type="pypi">pyodbc</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/pytest-benchmark/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pytest-benchmark/metadata.xml
index ff29dc0df..7bd24eb11 100644
--- a/dev-python/pytest-benchmark/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pytest-benchmark/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
     This plugin tightly integrates into pytest. To use this effectively you should know a thing or two about pytest first. Take a look at the introductory material or watch talks.
 
diff --git a/dev-python/pytest-celery/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pytest-celery/metadata.xml
index c62a0d2a6..7eac9edd7 100644
--- a/dev-python/pytest-celery/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pytest-celery/metadata.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">celery/pytest-celery</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="pypi">celery</remote-id>
   </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
\ No newline at end of file
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/scramp/metadata.xml b/dev-python/scramp/metadata.xml
index d0f7f22ef..5389f52af 100644
--- a/dev-python/scramp/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/scramp/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/tlocke/scramp/issues</bugs-to>
     <remote-id type="pypi">scramp</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/skia-pathops/metadata.xml b/dev-python/skia-pathops/metadata.xml
index 219ab28a1..43f457251 100644
--- a/dev-python/skia-pathops/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/skia-pathops/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">fonttools/skia-pathops</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="pypi">skia-pathops</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/sphinx-click/metadata.xml b/dev-python/sphinx-click/metadata.xml
index a68e36a02..b82b8eb84 100644
--- a/dev-python/sphinx-click/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/sphinx-click/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 sphinx-click is a Sphinx plugin that allows you to automatically extract documentation from a click-based application and include it in your docs.
   </longdescription>
diff --git a/dev-python/types-requests/metadata.xml b/dev-python/types-requests/metadata.xml
index a1b7ce6dc..5aa2eba6a 100644
--- a/dev-python/types-requests/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/types-requests/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/python/typeshed/issues</bugs-to>
 		<remote-id type="github">python/typeshed</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/xattr/metadata.xml b/dev-python/xattr/metadata.xml
index 63e1d0327..914c47b33 100644
--- a/dev-python/xattr/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/xattr/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/xattr/xattr/issues</bugs-to>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">xattr</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-ruby/byebug/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/byebug/metadata.xml
index 9baa72df3..7997a93a6 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/byebug/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ruby/byebug/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/byebug/issues</bugs-to>
 		<remote-id type="github">deivid-rodriguez/byebug</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-ruby/pry-byebug/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/pry-byebug/metadata.xml
index 066f9b9e7..1405771ad 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/pry-byebug/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ruby/pry-byebug/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-        <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-    </maintainer>
+    <!-- maintainer-needed -->
     <upstream>
         <bugs-to>https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug/issues</bugs-to>
         <remote-id type="github">deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-ruby/rspec-wait/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/rspec-wait/metadata.xml
index 265ed1961..96f71daa8 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/rspec-wait/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ruby/rspec-wait/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-        <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-    </maintainer>
+    <!-- maintainer-needed -->
     <upstream>
         <bugs-to>https://github.com/laserlemon/rspec-wait/issues</bugs-to>
         <remote-id type="github">laserlemon/rspec-wait</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-util/bats-assert/metadata.xml b/dev-util/bats-assert/metadata.xml
index 621c04b74..49728efbf 100644
--- a/dev-util/bats-assert/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/bats-assert/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">bats-core/bats-assert</remote-id>
   </upstream>
diff --git a/dev-util/bats-support/metadata.xml b/dev-util/bats-support/metadata.xml
index 050530e84..60dbcfa19 100644
--- a/dev-util/bats-support/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/bats-support/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">bats-core/bats-support</remote-id>
   </upstream>
diff --git a/dev-util/pifpaf/metadata.xml b/dev-util/pifpaf/metadata.xml
index 27046aa7a..51b5b3c57 100644
--- a/dev-util/pifpaf/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/pifpaf/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 Pifpaf is a suite of fixtures and a command-line tool that allows to start and stop daemons for a quick throw-away usage. This is typically useful when needing these daemons to run integration testing. It originaly evolved from its precussor overtest.
 	</longdescription>
diff --git a/games-misc/cbonsai/metadata.xml b/games-misc/cbonsai/metadata.xml
index 43c0c2553..2de2a2c0a 100644
--- a/games-misc/cbonsai/metadata.xml
+++ b/games-misc/cbonsai/metadata.xml
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription lang="en">
 cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree, and is entirely configurable via CLI options-- see usage. There are 2 modes of operation: static (see finished bonsai tree), and live (see growth step-by-step).
   </longdescription>
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai/-/issues</bugs-to>
-    <remote-id type="gitlab">jallbrit/cbonsai</remote-id> 
+    <remote-id type="gitlab">jallbrit/cbonsai</remote-id>
   </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata> 
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-fonts/gohufont/metadata.xml b/media-fonts/gohufont/metadata.xml
index 35d663900..d29e8a216 100644
--- a/media-fonts/gohufont/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-fonts/gohufont/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription lang="en">
 Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use. It is intended to be very legible and offers very discernable glyphs for all characters, including signs and symbols.
- 
+
 The small 11 px version is perfect for laptops and netbooks as it enables to fit more text into their small screens. The 14 px is ideal for desktop screens where you sit farther away from it and the 11 px would be too small.
 
 Features
diff --git a/media-fonts/inconsolata_dz/metadata.xml b/media-fonts/inconsolata_dz/metadata.xml
index e36019759..e7ad114ee 100644
--- a/media-fonts/inconsolata_dz/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-fonts/inconsolata_dz/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription lang="en">
 A new Inconsolata variant.
 
diff --git a/media-fonts/symbola/metadata.xml b/media-fonts/symbola/metadata.xml
index 709acdaa5..115e9d64a 100644
--- a/media-fonts/symbola/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-fonts/symbola/metadata.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer restrict="&lt;=media-fonts/symbola-7.17" type="person">
-		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-fonts/warframe-fonts/metadata.xml b/media-fonts/warframe-fonts/metadata.xml
index 40bc55973..115e9d64a 100644
--- a/media-fonts/warframe-fonts/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-fonts/warframe-fonts/metadata.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-gfx/gephi-bin/metadata.xml b/media-gfx/gephi-bin/metadata.xml
index b9e6de38c..c1321a6f5 100644
--- a/media-gfx/gephi-bin/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-gfx/gephi-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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues</bugs-to>
     <changelog>https://github.com/gephi/gephi/wiki/Releases</changelog>
diff --git a/media-libs/imgui/metadata.xml b/media-libs/imgui/metadata.xml
index bc0ac9540..9ffdaf77e 100644
--- a/media-libs/imgui/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-libs/imgui/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-      <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-    </maintainer>
+    <!-- maintainer-needed -->
     <upstream>
         <bugs-to>https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues</bugs-to>
         <remote-id type="github">ocornut/imgui</remote-id>
diff --git a/net-analyzer/munin-contrib/metadata.xml b/net-analyzer/munin-contrib/metadata.xml
index e724564c0..38dc1f5d2 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/munin-contrib/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-analyzer/munin-contrib/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
     <email>gentoo_bugs_peep@parallaxshift.com</email>
     <name>Philippe Chaintreuil</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">munin-monitoring/contrib</remote-id>
   </upstream>
diff --git a/sys-apps/ov/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/ov/metadata.xml
index 4a3197f26..05016fb26 100644
--- a/sys-apps/ov/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-apps/ov/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/noborus/ov/issues</bugs-to>
     <remote-id type="github">noborus/ov</remote-id>
diff --git a/sys-cluster/genders/metadata.xml b/sys-cluster/genders/metadata.xml
index f207d2682..96b63728f 100644
--- a/sys-cluster/genders/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-cluster/genders/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">chaos/genders</remote-id>
   </upstream>
diff --git a/sys-fs/gdu/metadata.xml b/sys-fs/gdu/metadata.xml
index 6f1367421..0fb382244 100644
--- a/sys-fs/gdu/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-fs/gdu/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/dundee/gdu</bugs-to>
 		<remote-id type="github">dundee/gdu</remote-id>
diff --git a/sys-kernel/zenpower3/metadata.xml b/sys-kernel/zenpower3/metadata.xml
index 20cd24630..095435dbd 100644
--- a/sys-kernel/zenpower3/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-kernel/zenpower3/metadata.xml
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
 	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="person">
 		<name>Gonçalo Negrier Duarte</name>
 		<email>gonegrier.duarte@gmail.com</email>
 	</maintainer>
diff --git a/x11-terms/mlterm-canna/metadata.xml b/x11-terms/mlterm-canna/metadata.xml
index a48920556..edd5589cd 100644
--- a/x11-terms/mlterm-canna/metadata.xml
+++ b/x11-terms/mlterm-canna/metadata.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 <?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>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="sourceforge">mlterm</remote-id>
 	</upstream>