diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
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-stages: [checks, release]
-
-check-commitizen:
-  # Check the current commit message for compliance with commitizen
-  stage: checks
-  image: alpine:latest
-  variables:
-    GIT_STRATEGY: none
-  script:
-    - apk add --no-cache --upgrade py3-pip
-    # Pass --break-system-packages since since this containers sole purpose is
-    # running 2 applications. If we get to advance this, implement a proper venv
-    - pip install --break-system-packages commitizen
-    - cz check --message "$CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE" >/tmp/cz_check || true # why does it return 1 if its actually 0?
-    - grep "successful" /tmp/cz_check # ugly hack to workaround the above issue
-  rules:
-    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH
-    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == 'merge_request_event'
-
-tag-to-release:
-  stage: release
-  # https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-cli/-/blob/master/Dockerfile
-  image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-cli:latest
-  variables:
-    GIT_STRATEGY: none
-  script:
-    - apk add --no-cache --upgrade git py3-pip
-    # Pass --break-system-packages since since this containers sole purpose is
-    # running 2 applications. If we get to advance this, implement a proper venv
-    - pip install --break-system-packages -U commitizen
-    - git clone "$CI_PROJECT_URL.git"
-    - cd "$CI_PROJECT_NAME"
-    - CHANGELOG=$(cz changelog "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" --dry-run | sed /^Invalid/d)
-    - release-cli create --name "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" --description "$CHANGELOG" --tag-name "$CI_COMMIT_TAG"
-  rules:
-    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG != null