It's also maintained by sound, so I'm just dropping him and opening this bug as FYI.
commit 6ef474f148414c4ee4ece613ce68f51813ce873f Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Date: Tue Dec 29 23:46:47 2015 media-sound/alsaplayer: Remove retired redhatter@ from maint, #570178