diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
index 314f4e503..00d853c7a 100644
--- a/default.nix
+++ b/default.nix
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ let
         python ${pkgs.writeText "live.py" script}
       '';
     };
+  metrics = with lib; collect isDerivation (pkgs.callPackage ./maintainers/metrics { });
   update-nix-releases = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/update-nix-releases.nix { };
   update-nixpkgs-releases = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/update-nixpkgs-releases.nix { };
 in
@@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ in
     inputsFrom = [ nix-dev ];
     packages = [
       devmode
+      metrics
       update-nix-releases
       update-nixpkgs-releases
       pkgs.niv
diff --git a/maintainers/metrics/README.md b/maintainers/metrics/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d74794299
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/metrics/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# GitHub metrics
+
+These helper tools show activity metrics on GitHub for repositories the documentation team is working on.
+The tools are available in the Nix shell environment for this repository.
+
+The `metrics` tool requires a JSON dump of **all** GitHub issues and pull requests from the given repository (this may take a while, since Nixpkgs has more than 300 000 items):
+
+```shell-session
+github-dump
+```
+
+Then, to view the metrics, run:
+
+```shell-session
+metrics
+```
+
+and follow the command-line help.
diff --git a/maintainers/metrics/default.nix b/maintainers/metrics/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a05f55f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/metrics/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ python3, lib, writeShellApplication, gh }:
+{
+  github-dump = writeShellApplication {
+    name = "github-dump";
+    runtimeInputs = [ gh ];
+    text = builtins.readFile ./github-dump.sh;
+  };
+  metrics = python3.pkgs.buildPythonPackage {
+    name = "metrics";
+    propagatedBuildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+      pandas
+    ];
+    src = with lib.fileset; toSource {
+      root = ./.;
+      fileset = unions [
+        ./metrics.py
+        ./setup.py
+      ];
+    };
+  };
+}
diff --git a/maintainers/metrics/github-dump.sh b/maintainers/metrics/github-dump.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..72bf8dc25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/metrics/github-dump.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+prs() {
+  fields="author,labels,state,createdAt,mergedAt,closedAt"
+  gh pr list --repo "$1" --state all --limit 1000000 --json "$fields"
+}
+
+issues() {
+  fields="author,labels,state,closedAt,createdAt"
+  gh issue list --repo "$1" --state all --limit 1000000 --json "$fields"
+}
+
+#repos=("nixpkgs" "nix" "nix.dev")
+repos=("nix" "nix.dev")
+for repo in "${repos[@]}"; do
+  echo fetching pull requests for nixos/"$repo"
+  prs nixos/"$repo" > "$repo"-prs.json
+  echo fetching issues for nixos/"$repo"
+  issues nixos/"$repo" > "$repo"-issues.json
+done
diff --git a/maintainers/metrics/metrics.py b/maintainers/metrics/metrics.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3416bbd4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/metrics/metrics.py
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import pandas as pd
+import argparse
+import os
+from datetime import datetime
+from enum import Enum, auto
+
+
+def valid_path(path):
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"The file '{path}' does not exist.")
+    return path
+
+
+def valid_date(date_string):
+    try:
+        # Try to parse the date string into a datetime object
+        return datetime.fromisoformat(date_string)
+    except ValueError:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"'{date_string}' must be an ISO 8601 date.")
+
+
+class Interval(Enum):
+    day = auto()
+    week = auto()
+    month = auto()
+    quarter = auto()
+
+
+def valid_interval(interval):
+    try:
+        return Interval[interval.lower()]
+    except KeyError:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(
+          f"'{interval}' is not a valid interval."
+          f"Valid values:\n{[str(e) + ', ' for e in Interval]}."
+        )
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="View metrics on GitHub activities")
+    parser.add_argument("issues", type=valid_path, help="Path to a JSON file with all issues. Must contain at least the fields: author,labels,state,closedAt,createdAt")
+    parser.add_argument("pulls", type=valid_path, help="Path to a JSON file with all pull requests. Must contain at least the fields: author,labels,state,createdAt,mergedAt,closedAt")
+    parser.add_argument('-f', '--from', type=valid_date)
+    parser.add_argument('-t', '--to', nargs='?', type=valid_date, default=datetime.today().date())
+    parser.add_argument('-i', '--interval', nargs='?', type=valid_date, default=Interval.month, help=f'The time interval ({", ".join([str(e) for e in Interval])}). Default is monthly.')
+    parser.add_argument('-l', '--labels', nargs='*', type=str)
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    issues = pd.read_json(args.issues)
+    pulls = pd.read_json(args.pulls)
+
+    # add a new column so it's easier to access
+    pulls["author_login"] = pulls["author"].apply(lambda x: x['login'])
+    # overwrite string dates with the parsed values
+    pulls.loc[:, 'mergedAt'] = pd.to_datetime(pulls['mergedAt'])
+    pulls.loc[:, 'createdAt'] = pd.to_datetime(pulls['createdAt'])
+    pulls.loc[:, 'closedAt'] = pd.to_datetime(pulls['closedAt'])
+
+    merged = pulls.dropna(subset=['mergedAt'])
+    first_merge = merged.groupby('author_login')['mergedAt'].min().reset_index()
+    # TODO: actual metrics along the lines of https://www.tweag.io/blog/2024-05-02-right-words-right-place/
+    print(first_merge.sort_values(by="mergedAt"))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+
diff --git a/maintainers/metrics/setup.py b/maintainers/metrics/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..08fc320c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/metrics/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+from setuptools import setup
+
+setup(
+    name='metrics',
+    py_modules=['metrics'],
+    entry_points={
+        'console_scripts': [
+            'metrics = metrics:main',
+        ],
+    },
+)