chore: introduce issue metrics

.github/workflows/README.md

@@ -59,4 +59,8 @@ Owner: Core CDK team
 ### Issue Reprioritizer
 [issue-reprioritization.yml](issue-reprioritization.yml): GitHub action that labels `p2`
 issues as `p1` if a certain level of community engagement is met.
+Owner: Core CDK team
+
+### Issue Metrics
+[issue-metrics.yml](issue-metrics.yml): GitHub action that runs monthly to report on metrics for issues created last month.
 Owner: Core CDK team

.github/workflows/issue-metrics.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+name: Monthly issue metrics
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 2 1 * *'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: issue metrics
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+
+    - name: Get dates for last month
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        # Get the current date
+        current_date=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
+
+        # Calculate the previous month
+        previous_date=$(date -d "$current_date -1 month" +'%Y-%m-%d')
+
+        # Extract the year and month from the previous date
+        previous_year=$(date -d "$previous_date" +'%Y')
+        previous_month=$(date -d "$previous_date" +'%m')
+
+        # Calculate the first day of the previous month
+        first_day=$(date -d "$previous_year-$previous_month-01" +'%Y-%m-%d')
+
+        # Calculate the last day of the previous month
+        last_day=$(date -d "$first_day +1 month -1 day" +'%Y-%m-%d')
+
+        echo "$first_day..$last_day"
+        echo "last_month=$first_day..$last_day" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+    - name: Run issue-metrics tool
+      uses: github/issue-metrics@v2
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        SEARCH_QUERY: 'repo:aws/aws-cdk is:issue created:${{ env.last_month }} -reason:"not planned"'
+
+    - name: Create issue
+      uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v4
+      with:
+        title: Monthly issue metrics report
+        content-filepath: ./issue_metrics.md
+        assignees: evgenyka