I'm already maintaining this package.
looks like this was done already as I see in metadata.xml
@pacho I think maintainership requests are supposed to stay IN_PROGRESS while the package has an active maintainer. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers/Maintainer_Bugs_and_Maintainership_Requests#Claiming_a_package
Oh, I didn't know they were handling bugs in this way