diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 6110b74933b3..7a5a7c254944 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
   sander = "Sander van der Burg <s.vanderburg@tudelft.nl>";
   shlevy = "Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>";
   simons = "Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>";
+  skeidel = "Sven Keidel <svenkeidel@gmail.com>";
   smironov = "Sergey Mironov <ierton@gmail.com>";
   sprock = "Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>";
   thammers = "Tobias Hammerschmidt <jawr@gmx.de>";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/gpodder/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/gpodder/default.nix
index 19dacf51e5f5..446cef1e5a5c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/gpodder/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/gpodder/default.nix
@@ -31,4 +31,14 @@ in buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   installPhase = "DESTDIR=/ PREFIX=$out make install";
 
+  meta = {
+    description = "A podcatcher written in python";
+    longDescription = ''
+      gPodder downloads and manages free audio and video content (podcasts)
+      for you. Listen directly on your computer or on your mobile devices.
+    '';
+    homepage = "http://gpodder.org/";
+    license = "GPLv3";
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.skeidel ];
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mygpoclient/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mygpoclient/default.nix
index 4b40a830c1b9..15538538d6b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mygpoclient/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mygpoclient/default.nix
@@ -11,4 +11,15 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   buildInputs = [ pythonPackages.nose pythonPackages.minimock ];
 
   checkPhase = "make test";
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A gpodder.net client library";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The mygpoclient library allows developers to utilize a Pythonic interface
+      to the gpodder.net web services.
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://thp.io/2010/mygpoclient/";
+    license = "GPLv3";
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.skeidel ];
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 9bf5cbe0255d..bb8256cce2e5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4317,6 +4317,11 @@ rec {
     buildInputs = [ nose ];
 
     checkPhase = "./test";
+
+    meta = {
+      description = "A minimalistic mocking library for python";
+      homepage = https://pypi.python.org/pypi/MiniMock;
+    };
   };
 
   mitmproxy = buildPythonPackage rec {