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

Want to complain anonymously?

Want to complain anonymoulsy? Just add to this list. Feel free to complain

Write your Anonymous Complaint here

Too few people are complaining

Made with Polygen(tm)

Non-free firmware chooses bad grammars

The GPL v3 produces difficult sushi memes

Richard Stallman never hugs Linus Torvalds

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...