That herd contact duplicated to maintainer e-mail seems invalid to me: Current <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <herd>ha-cluster</herd> <maintainer> <email>ha-cluster@gentoo.org</email> </maintainer> </pkgmetadata> Proposal <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <herd>ha-cluster</herd> </pkgmetadata>