diff --git a/.github/workflows/linter.yml b/.github/workflows/linter.yml
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+---
+# Copyright (C) 2024 EnterpriseDB
+
+name: Linters
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+  schedule:
+    # Lint code base every Monday 12:00 am. The idea here is to catch possible
+    # issues that were not detected during the normal development workflow.
+    - cron: '0 0 * * 1'
+
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      source-ref:
+        description: Source code branch/ref name
+        default: master
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+env:
+  SOURCE_REF: ${{ inputs.source-ref || github.ref }}
+  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_SLONIK }}
+
+jobs:
+  run-super-linter:
+    name: Run super linter
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      packages: read
+      # To report GitHub Actions status checks
+      statuses: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ env.SOURCE_REF }}
+          # Full git history is needed to get a proper list of changed files within `super-linter`
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+
+      - name: Super-linter
+        uses: super-linter/super-linter/slim@v7
+        env:
+          # To report GitHub Actions status checks
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          # Linters configuration.
+          LINTER_RULES_PATH: '.'
+          # We are not interested in linting the these files:
+          # * Security workflows provided by the Foundation team, as we are not supposed
+          #   to be changing them.
+          # * Markdown files under `doc` or `sphinx` directories, which belong to the
+          #   old docs, and are going to be replaced soon.
+          FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: '\.github/workflows/[^\s]*-scan.ya?ml|(doc|sphinx)/.*\.md'
+          DOCKERFILE_HADOLINT_FILE_NAME: .hadolint.yaml
+          GITLEAKS_CONFIG_FILE: .gitleaks.toml
+          MARKDOWN_CONFIG_FILE: .markdownlint.yml
+          PYTHON_BLACK_CONFIG_FILE: .python-black
+          PYTHON_FLAKE8_CONFIG_FILE: tox.ini
+          PYTHON_ISORT_CONFIG_FILE: .isort.cfg
+          YAML_CONFIG_FILE: .yamllint.yml
+          YAML_ERROR_ON_WARNING: false
+          # On runs triggered by PRs we only lint the added/modified files.
+          VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
+          # Validate file types used in the Barman repo.
+          # Bash because of bash scripts.
+          VALIDATE_BASH: true
+          VALIDATE_BASH_EXEC: true
+          # Dockerfile because we might add some of them soon.
+          VALIDATE_DOCKERFILE_HADOLINT: true
+          # Validate the own GitHub workflows and actions.
+          VALIDATE_GITHUB_ACTIONS: true
+          # Search for leaks in the repository.
+          VALIDATE_GITLEAKS: true
+          # Validate all documentation files from the repo.
+          VALIDATE_MARKDOWN: true
+          # Validate Python code.
+          VALIDATE_PYTHON_BLACK: true
+          VALIDATE_PYTHON_FLAKE8: true
+          VALIDATE_PYTHON_ISORT: true
+          # Validate YAML files from workflows and release notes.
+          VALIDATE_YAML: true
+
+  check-conventions:
+    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+    name: Check the compliance to contribution guidelines in PRs
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+
+      - name: Checkout repo-actions
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          repository: EnterpriseDB/repo-actions
+          token: ${{ env.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          ref: v1
+          path: ./.github/repo-actions
+
+      - name: Check conventions for PRs
+        id: validate-conventions
+        shell: python
+        run: |
+          import os
+          import re
+          import json
+          import subprocess
+
+          # Get the event payload from the GitHub event
+          with open(os.getenv('GITHUB_EVENT_PATH'), 'r') as f:
+            event_payload = json.load(f)
+
+          # Get the branch name, PR number and PR description from the event payload
+          pr_number = event_payload['pull_request']['number']
+          branch_name = event_payload['pull_request']['head']['ref']
+          pr_description = event_payload['pull_request']['body']
+
+          # Initialize a list to collect when conventions are not followed
+          errors = []
+
+          # Check for the conventions for PRs, starting with branch name
+          # By storing the ticket number in the branch name, we also indirectly check that
+          # the commit messages and the PR description all reference the same ticket number
+          match = re.match(r'^dev/bar-(\d+)(?=[^\s]*$)', branch_name, re.IGNORECASE)
+          if match:
+            # Get the ticket number from the branch name
+            ticket_number = match.group(1)
+          else:
+            errors.append(f'Branch name {branch_name} does not follow the convention')
+            ticket_number = None
+
+          if ticket_number:
+            # Check the PR description for ticket reference
+            if not re.search(rf"^References: BAR-{ticket_number}(?=\.|\s+|$)", pr_description, re.IGNORECASE | re.MULTILINE):
+              errors.append(f'PR description does not reference BAR-{ticket_number}')
+
+            # Check PR commit messages for the ticket reference
+            # Get the target branch from the PR payload
+            target_branch = event_payload['pull_request']['base']['ref']
+            # Get a list of commits that exist only in the source branch but not in the target branch
+            commit_hashes = subprocess.check_output(
+              ['git', 'rev-list', '--right-only', f'origin/{target_branch}...{branch_name}']
+            ).decode().split()
+
+            # Check each commit message for the ticket reference
+            for commit_hash in commit_hashes:
+              commit_message = subprocess.check_output(
+                ['git', 'show', '-s', '--format=%b', commit_hash]
+              ).decode()
+              if not re.search(rf"^References: BAR-{ticket_number}(?=\.|\s+|$)", commit_message, re.IGNORECASE | re.MULTILINE):
+                errors.append(f'Commit {commit_hash} does not reference BAR-{ticket_number}')
+
+          exit_code = 0
+          comments = []
+
+          if len(errors) == 0:
+              comments.append(
+                  "✅ This PR follows all conventions!"
+              )
+          else:
+              # If the PR fails to follow any of the conventions, report it and mark as failed
+              comments.append(
+                  "❌ This PR does not follow all conventions!"
+              )
+              comments.append(
+                  "\n".join(errors)
+              )
+              exit_code = 1
+
+          with open(os.environ["GITHUB_OUTPUT"], "a") as fd:
+              # We need to "encode" line-breaks as literal "\n" values when writing to
+              # GITHUB_OUTPUT so we avoid "Invalid format" errors in Actions
+              comments = '\n\n'.join(comments).replace("\n", r"\n")
+              fd.write(f"comments={comments}\n")
+              fd.write(f"exit_code={exit_code}\n")
+
+      - name: Create or update comment about conventions validation
+        uses: ./.github/repo-actions/create-or-update-comment
+        with:
+          token: ${{ env.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          repo: ${{ github.repository }}
+          issue-number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+          comment: '# Contributing Conventions Status\n\n${{ steps.validate-conventions.outputs.comments }}'
+          matches: '^# Contributing Conventions Status\n\n'
+
+      - name: Exit with exit code reported by conventions validation
+        run: |
+          # shellcheck disable=SC2242
+          exit ${{ steps.validate-conventions.outputs.exit_code }}
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diff --git a/.gitleaks.toml b/.gitleaks.toml
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+[extend]
+# useDefault will extend the base configuration with the default gitleaks config:
+# https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks/blob/master/config/gitleaks.toml
+useDefault = true
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diff --git a/.hadolint.yaml b/.hadolint.yaml
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+failure-threshold: error
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diff --git a/.isort.cfg b/.isort.cfg
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+[settings]
+profile = black
+multi_line_output = 3
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diff --git a/.markdownlint.yml b/.markdownlint.yml
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+++ b/.markdownlint.yml
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+# MD013/line-length : Line length : https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/blob/v0.34.0/doc/md013.md
+# We don't want the linter to fail just because line-length was exceeded.
+MD013: false
+# MD024/no-duplicate-heading: https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/blob/v0.34.0/doc/md024.md
+# We don't want the linter to fail when duplicated header names are found. That is not
+# relevant for us, and actually we rely on duplicated names when generating the RELNOTES.md
+# contents.
+MD024: false
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diff --git a/.python-black b/.python-black
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+[tool.black]
+line-length = 88
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diff --git a/.yamllint.yml b/.yamllint.yml
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+extends: default
+
+rules:
+  # comments should visibly make sense
+  comments:
+    level: error
+  comments-indentation:
+    level: error
+  # 88 chars should be enough, but don't fail if a line is longer
+  line-length:
+    max: 88
+    level: warning
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