On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Yves wrote:
> You're right of course, and I always try and contribute where and when I 
> can. I did what I could and wrote down my experience:
> http://yalis.fr/cms/index.php/post/2014/11/02/Migrate-from-DenyHosts-to-Fail2ban

Lovely -- thanks for sharing.  Posted it on fail2ban's Google+
https://plus.google.com/100687954024121389562/posts/ct32cfi1fi7

> But willing is not enough; I just do not have the knowledge! So far, I 

I agree to disagree -- now you do ;)

> faithfully keep every empty line, every standard comment, every 
> indentation... I have no idea where comments are allowed and where they 
> are not. I think I correctly inferred some of the syntax, but I can not 
> be sure. The very least the official documentation should write down is 
> the formal syntax of the configuration files, in my opinion.

man fail2ban
would guide you into it -- e.g. there is man jail.conf which is probably
the best to the latest documentation we have atm.

> Now, don't read this as a critic of the project. I understand that 
> people made fail2ban in their own free time, and maintain it the same 
> way. I am grateful to them.

thank you!

> The way I see things, the limited amount of available help, be it 
> through chat or wiki, is NOT a symptom of unhelpfulness, but rather the 
> sign of a small dev team. That is what I was surprised about: that such 
> a much used project would still have such a small dev team.

Let's grow it -- once again -- every contribution regardless how small
would be of help, including documentation triage/rewording etc.
Everything is on github.  Also if someone could go through wiki and
possibly find stale/incorrect "articles" and/or move appropriate pieces
to the documentation within fail2ban repository -- would be great.

> I wish the fail2ban project all the best, and once again I thank its 
> developers for it.

You are most welcome!

-- 
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