Introduction: Some context

What do people complain about in Finland? Well, the Helsinki Choir of Complaints will sing it to you. The Helsinki Choir of Complaints excellent video can be seen here. Watch the video before you do anything else. Specially if you attended DebConf5 in Helsinki.

Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. While many of the complaints are universal to western urban life, many of the complaints dive deep to the heart of the Finnish soul. But all the complaints end with the timeless refrain of all humanity, It's Not Fair.

The Choir of Complaints invites people to complain as much as they want and to sing their complaints out loud together with fellow complainers.

TheDebianChoirOfComplaints

What do people complain about in Debian? Well, hopefully, the Debian Choir of Complaints will sing it to you in Cáceres during DebConf9. Some of us can sing, some of us can play the piano, we have a great Video Team, and all of us can loudly complain.

We want your complaints!

Write you complaints here, even if you are not attending DebConf9, even if you don't want to sing, even if they are not strictly related to Debian:

Name

Nick

Email

Complaint

Can sing?

Will attend DebConf9?

Eric Raymond

ELER

esr@ibiblio.org

IPods dont work with linux
No one is paying attention to my poor Aunt Tillie!

No

No!

AlexanderSchmehl

Tolimar

tolimar@debian.org

I'm getting old
I need more money
My network is too slow for those damn sponsored upload of huge games
No one takes my work seriously
My english could be better
My german too
I don't have enough complaints.

Loud? Yes.
Good? No.

Yes.

HolgerLevsen

h01ger

debian@layer-acht.org

15000 packages are too many to find the good ones and etch wont fit on two DVDs
The release cycles are too long (or to slow)
NM takes too long
There is no polygen grammar for complaints (fixed)
I cant keep up with Debian email
The RC bug count is too high
Flamewars happen too often
Planet gets flooded all the time and Evan never chooses a proper subject
Nobody cares about stable, everybody runs experimental
The GDFL causes too much work
The social contract is always changed
Nobody understands the finnish inquisition
elmo is always busy and aba speaks too fast
#debian-women consists mostly of men
transitions are never finished
too many packages have lintian bugs
no one knows about debtags, but everybody complains about too many packages to choose from
too often patches from ubuntu are not in our BTS

Yes

Yes

AmayaRodrigo

amaya

amaya@debian.org

The BTS is too slow
There are too many GRs going on right now
Too many people listed on ?DebConf7/NoJune
The python transition is too difficult to understand
h01ger has too many complaints, and he is from Hamburg
Ubuntu gets all the credit for our hard work
m68k wont be released with etch
Vancouver has awful sushi
Ganneff never hugs me
Good developers go MIA
Clint's posts are impossible to understand
udev is always broken
The extremadura people never submit patches back to Debian
Nobody understands what firmware really is
Sam Hocevar's porn page is disappointing
Translations are never uptodate
The mozilla foundation is on crack but our own logo is also non-free
There is no cabal
java is still in non-free and mplayer doesnt make it through NEW
Mark never invited me in his plane
The Debian UK Society is getting too rich
Booting takes forever
I have too many irc windows
Gebian GNU/Hurd doesnt work
apt is unmaintained upstream
cdbs is evil
Manoj and Jeroen are impossible to pronounce
aj won't withdraw dunc tank.

Yes

Yes

ZakElep

zakame

zakame@spunge.org

There are no DDs anywhere near the Philippines
We have a broken government
I still have no college degree
My laptop's MMC card reader doesn't work under GNU/Linux
Too many people complain of Emacs and Vi
The draft FOSS bill sucks
NM is a bit difficult
IRC meetings are extra difficult
My mailbox is full of spam
Debian is not-so-loved by Pinoy GNU/Linux newbies
I've yet to fix my sid chroots on my laptop
Packages still take a long time to build.

Yes

Yes

GerardoCuriel

javamaniac

gcuriel@ica.org.ve

Women are so complicated
Gnome doesn't have a nice default theme(really)
I don't have a laptop still
Women are so complicated(yes,really)
The most of the Tolimar's complaints
Planet suddenly becomes from planet debian to planet-${DEVELOPER_WITH_BROKEN_RSS}
Amaya has too many complaints
We don't have a well-defined java-policy still
I'm tired
The firefox thing.

Maybe

Yes

WouterVerhelst

wouter

wouter@debian.org

"wouter" is always already taken as a nick
There are too many bugs
Hardware sucks.

Yes

Dunno (yet)

FilipusKlutiero

chealer

cheal@hotpop.com

There are too many messages on mailing lists
There are too many bugs
There are too many GRs
We shouldn't use mailing lists for communication in 2006
We shouldn't use a mail-based BTS in 2006
We shouldn't use a mail-based voting system in 2006
My Firefox->Thunderbird mailto protocol support broke and it took me a month to fix it, on Debian stable
We're in 2006
This is not an extensive rant on mail usage in Debian
I have no time to fix any of these issues.

Yes

No

?RandallDonald

KhensU

rdonald@debian.org

Users filing duplicate bug reports
Wishlist bugs on the day new upstream is released
If my computer stops "working" file a grave bug
Lack of a modern laptop
Mortgage spam
People who say "noone".

Yes

Doubtful

DavidNusinow

gravity

dnusinow@debian.org

X is a gigantic flaming pile of smelly smelly poop. I can't update X fast enough
Too many good people quitting and not enough crappy people quitting
Too much fighting, not enough smiles
I can't get any work done when I'm on IRC because people constantly message me asking when I'm going to update or fix some piece of X for them

When drunk

Yes!

EvanProdromou

evan

evan@debian.org

People give me too much crap about my blog postings on Planet Debian
I'm sick of reading and re-reading the minutiae of Creative Commons licenses
I don't know why people act like we're not working on the same project
I don't know why this can't be fun
Everyone calls each other names
We can't seem to get a release out on time to save our lives
I don't want to work on my packages any more
I forgot what packages I ITP'd
My baby throws good food on the floor
My shoulders hurt
My wrists hurt
DDs are mean to each other and everyone else to prove strange philosophical points
Every time I upgrade X it takes forever to fix my conf files
hotbabe isn't very hot
Holger has ridiculous hair
We don't have digest mode for all mailing lists.

Soooo good.

Yes

SteveMcIntyre

Sledge

93sam@debian.org

I never have enough time to do things
Nobody helps on debian-cd
CVS sucks
Debian is being ruined by morons

OMG NO!

Yes

StefanoZacchiroli

Zack

zack@debian.org

debian lists archive on the web sucks
we have the nice lists archive made with lurker ...
but I always lose my bookmark to it!
alioth moderate messages to commit lists per default
the BTS is too slow(tm)
Enrico maintain OCaml stuff but does not want to learn the OCaml policy
I'm the OCaml mentor of choice of Enrico
firefox does not save itself in the gnome session
the greater the kernel version the fewer hardware on my laptop is supported
I do not give my cat the love it deserves
joey schultze thinks this is because of dunc-tank
vim in Debian is configured as precambrian vi because people want this to be

Yes

Yes

Ben Nolan

Illarane

illarane(at)illarane.co.uk

I have to pay hundreds for a decent laptop, which then breaks because of design faults.
I send it off to have the motherboard replaced and it comes back with a new hard-disk and a bill.
It still has the same mother board.

Yes

No

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Want to perform with us?

If you would really like to take part organizing this pet-project, list yourself here too. If you can sing, play the piano, have choir experience of any kind, have cool ideas...

Name

Nick

Email

Choir skill

Will attend DebConf9?

Example Debianist

cutelittlename

itsme(at)email.org

Video Team

Yes

AmayaRodrigo

amaya

amaya(at)debian.org

Loud [Sign|Sing]

Yes

WouterVerhelst

yoe

wouter(at)debian.org

Flute & singing

Yes

Hanna Ollila

Tulitar

tulitar(at)iki.fi

Piano & singing

Yes

Don Armstrong

dondelelcaro

don@debian.org

Piano & singing

Yes

Ben Nolan

Illarane

illarane(at)illarane.co.uk

Piano, sing & conductor

No