diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
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+---
+name: Releases
+
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+    # tags:
+    #   - "*"
+
+jobs:
+  releases:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      # - name: Generating commit logs
+      #   run: |
+      #     cd commits && ./generate.sh -t 0
+      #     LOGS_DIR="output-$(date +%Y)-$(date +%W)"
+      #     mv output $LOGS_DIR
+      #     tar -czf mariadb-stats.tgz $LOGS_DIR
+      - name: Generating pull requests stats
+        run: |
+          # calculate week-numbers
+          WEEK_NUMBER=$(date +%W)
+          YEAR=$(date +%Y)
+          TILL="${YEAR}-W${WEEK_NUMBER}"
+          FROM="${YEAR}-W1"
+          cd pull-requests && ./get_prs.py -v "$FROM" "$TILL"
+          mv prs*.csv prs.csv
+      - uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+        with:
+          artifacts: "output/mariadb-stats.tgz,pull-requests/prs.csv"
+          bodyFile: "commits/ci_release.md"
diff --git a/ci_release.md b/ci_release.md
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+# A metrics snapshot up to TODO var
+
+The output files include:
+
+```
+people-*.csv - breakdown of commits by individual
+organisations-*.csv - breakdown of commits by organisations
+categories-*.csv - breakdown of commits by category
+prs.csv - breakdown of pull request statistics
+```
+
+The `maria-stats.tgz` file contains the commit results for the following repositories:
+
+- <https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/libmarias3>
+- <https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-columnstore-engine>
+- <https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-c>
+- <https://github.com/mariadb/mariadb-docker>
+- <https://github.com/mariadb/mariadb_kernel>
+
+The `prs.csv` file is just for the MariaDB Server tree.