Introduction: Some context

What do people complain about in Finland? Well, the Helsinki Choir of Complaints will sing it to you. [http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kalleinen/complaintschoir.html The Helsinki Choir of Complaints] excellent video can be seen [http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kalleinen/downloads/cc_hel.mov here]. Watch the video before you do anything else. Specially if you attended DebConf5 in Helsinki.

Finnish artists [http://www.ykon.org/tellervo/ Tellervo Kalleinen] and [http://home.arcor.de/oooooo/ 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 [http://wiki.debian.org/HugAFinn 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 Edinburgh during DebConf7. Some of us can sing, some of us can play the piano, we have a great [http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf5VideoLearnings Video Team], and all of us can loudly complain.

We want your complaints!

Write you complaints here, even if you are not attending DebConf7, 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 Debconf7?

Eric Raymond

ELER

esr@ibiblio.org

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

No

No!

AlexanderSchmehl

Tolimar

tolimar@debian.org

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

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

Yes

Yes

AmayaRodrigo

amaya

amaya@debian.org

The BTS is too slow?BR There are too many GRs going on right now?BR Too many people listed on ?DebConf7/NoJune?BR The python transition is too difficult to understand?BRh01ger has too many complaints, and he is from Hamburg?BR Ubuntu gets all the credit for our hard work?BR m68k wont be released with etch?BR Vancouver has awful sushi?BR Ganneff never hugs me?BR Good developers go MIA?BR Clint's posts are impossible to understand?BR udev is always broken?BR The extremadura people never submit patches back to Debian?BR Nobody understands what firmware really is?BR Sam Hocevar's porn page is disappointing?BR Translations are never uptodate?BR The mozilla foundation is on crack but our own logo is also non-free?BR There is no cabal?BR java is still in non-free and mplayer doesnt make it through NEW?BR Mark never invited me in his plane?BR The Debian UK Society is getting too rich?BR Booting takes forever?BR I have too many irc windows?BR Gebian GNU/Hurd doesnt work?BR apt is unmaintained upstream?BR cdbs is evil?BR Manoj and Jeroen are impossible to pronounce?BR aj won't withdraw dunc tank.

Yes

Yes

ZakElep

zakame

zakame@spunge.org

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

Yes

Yes

GerardoCuriel

javamaniac

gcuriel@ica.org.ve

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

Maybe

Yes

WouterVerhelst

wouter

wouter@debian.org

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

Yes

Dunno (yet)

FilipusKlutiero

chealer

cheal@hotpop.com

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

Yes

No

?RandallDonald

KhensU

rdonald@debian.org

Users filing duplicate bug reports?BR Wishlist bugs on the day new upstream is released?BR If my computer stops "working" file a grave bug?BR Lack of a modern laptop?BR Mortgage spam?BR 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?BR Too many good people quitting and not enough crappy people quitting?BR Too much fighting, not enough smiles?BR 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?BR

When drunk

Yes!

EvanProdromou

evan

evan@debian.org

People give me too much crap about my blog postings on Planet Debian?BR I'm sick of reading and re-reading the minutiae of Creative Commons licenses?BR I don't know why people act like we're not working on the same project?BR I don't know why this can't be fun?BR Everyone calls each other names?BR We can't seem to get a release out on time to save our lives?BR I don't want to work on my packages any more?BR I forgot what packages I ITP'd?BR My baby throws good food on the floor?BR My shoulders hurt?BR My wrists hurt?BR DDs are mean to each other and everyone else to prove strange philosophical points?BR Every time I upgrade X it takes forever to fix my conf files?BR hotbabe isn't very hot?BR Holger has ridiculous hair?BR 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?BR Nobody helps on debian-cd?BR CVS sucks?BR Debian is being ruined by morons

OMG NO!

Yes

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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 Debconf7?

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