diff --git a/www-apps/gitea/files/app.ini b/www-apps/gitea/files/app.ini
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5dd998f60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/gitea/files/app.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[log]
+MODE      = file
+LEVEL     = Info
+ROOT_PATH = /var/log/gitea
diff --git a/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.confd b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.confd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b1710b06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.confd
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# arguments for gitea
+command_args="--config /var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini"
diff --git a/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.initd b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.initd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..837164aa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.initd
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/sbin/openrc-run
+# Copyright 2016-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+description="Gitea, a self-hosted Git service"
+pidfile=${pidfile:-"/run/${SVCNAME}/${SVCNAME}.pid"}
+user=${user:-git}
+group=${group:-git}
+
+command="/usr/bin/gitea web"
+command_args="${command_args:--config /var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini}"
+command_background="true"
+start_stop_daemon_args="--user ${user} --group ${group} \
+	-e GITEA_WORK_DIR=/var/lib/gitea
+	--stdout /var/log/${SVCNAME}/${SVCNAME}.log \
+	--stderr /var/log/${SVCNAME}/${SVCNAME}.log"
+
+depend() {
+	need net
+	after net
+}
+
+start_pre() {
+	checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "${user}":"${group}" "${pidfile%/*}"
+}
diff --git a/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.initd-r1 b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.initd-r1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..837164aa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.initd-r1
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/sbin/openrc-run
+# Copyright 2016-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+description="Gitea, a self-hosted Git service"
+pidfile=${pidfile:-"/run/${SVCNAME}/${SVCNAME}.pid"}
+user=${user:-git}
+group=${group:-git}
+
+command="/usr/bin/gitea web"
+command_args="${command_args:--config /var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini}"
+command_background="true"
+start_stop_daemon_args="--user ${user} --group ${group} \
+	-e GITEA_WORK_DIR=/var/lib/gitea
+	--stdout /var/log/${SVCNAME}/${SVCNAME}.log \
+	--stderr /var/log/${SVCNAME}/${SVCNAME}.log"
+
+depend() {
+	need net
+	after net
+}
+
+start_pre() {
+	checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "${user}":"${group}" "${pidfile%/*}"
+}
diff --git a/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.logrotated b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.logrotated
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ec6ddfe60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.logrotated
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/var/log/gitea/* {
+	su git git
+	missingok
+	size 5M
+	rotate 3
+	compress
+	copytruncate
+}
diff --git a/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.service b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.service
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3fdbc1fd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/gitea/files/gitea.service
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Gitea service
+Documentation=https://gitea.io
+
+AssertPathIsDirectory=/var/lib/gitea
+AssertPathIsReadWrite=/var/lib/gitea
+
+After=network.target
+Requires=network.target
+After=mysqld.service
+Requires=mysqld.service
+
+[Service]
+User=git
+Group=git
+
+Environment="GITEA_CUSTOM=/var/lib/gitea"
+WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/gitea
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/gitea web -c /var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini
+
+Restart=always
+PrivateTmp=true
+Nice=5
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/www-apps/gitea/gitea-1.4.2.ebuild b/www-apps/gitea/gitea-1.4.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41abc1c91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-apps/gitea/gitea-1.4.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+inherit user systemd golang-build golang-vcs-snapshot
+
+EGO_PN="code.gitea.io/gitea"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm"
+
+DESCRIPTION="A painless self-hosted Git service, written in Go"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="dev-go/go-bindata"
+RDEPEND="dev-vcs/git"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	enewgroup git
+	enewuser git -1 /bin/bash /var/lib/gitea git
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	sed -i -e "s/\"main.Version.*$/\"main.Version=${PV}\"/"\
+		-e "s/-ldflags '-s/-ldflags '/" src/${EGO_PN}/Makefile || die
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	GOPATH="${WORKDIR}/${P}:$(get_golibdir_gopath)" emake -C src/${EGO_PN} generate
+	TAGS="bindata pam sqlite" LDFLAGS="" CGO_LDFLAGS="-fno-PIC" GOPATH="${WORKDIR}/${P}:$(get_golibdir_gopath)" emake -C src/${EGO_PN} build
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	pushd src/${EGO_PN} || die
+	dobin gitea
+	insinto /var/lib/gitea/conf
+	newins custom/conf/app.ini.sample app.ini.example
+	popd || die
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/gitea.initd-r1 gitea
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/gitea.confd gitea
+	keepdir /var/log/gitea /var/lib/gitea/data
+	fowners -R git:git /var/log/gitea /var/lib/gitea/
+	systemd_dounit "${FILESDIR}/gitea.service"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	if [[ ! -e "${EROOT}/var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini" ]]; then
+		elog "No app.ini found, copying initial config over"
+		cp "${FILESDIR}"/app.ini "${EROOT}"/var/lib/gitea/conf/ || die
+		chown git:git /var/lib/gitea/conf/app.ini
+	else
+		elog "app.ini found, please check example file for possible changes"
+		ewarn "Please note that environment variables have been changed:"
+		ewarn "GITEA_WORK_DIR is set to /var/lib/gitea (previous value: unset)"
+		ewarn "GITEA_CUSTOM is set to '\$GITEA_WORK_DIR/custom' (previous: /var/lib/gitea)"
+	fi
+}