A few days ago it reached our teams Linux kernel 4.8, a kernel created by the Torvalds team that seems to be the most stable and complete kernel so far or so we thought until a few hours ago.
A few hours ago, Linus Torvalds used the kernel mailing list to apologize and sorry for the big bug that had crept into Kernel 4.8, an error that was attributed as responsible but not as the creator of it. The bug in question has been dubbed as "Buggy crap" and it seems that it has been with us since version 3.15, that is, a problem that the team should have solved for a long time.
Linus Torvalds has not been characterized by his good work as a team leader and in this message he has shown it once again. And although he apologizes to the entire community, Torvalds also recognizes that everything it is due to bad practices of developers that create these problems, because this bug is due to that and therefore still remains in the kernel.
Linus Torvalds keeps attacking his team of developers for the latest bug
Obviously this problem will be solved when it reaches the main distributions, but once again, between laments and fights, Torvalds begins to stand out in the Linux scene, something that seems positive but that in the last occasion left a bad image of the kernel creator from distributions like Ubuntu or Debian.
Personally I think that the organization of the Kernel development team is badly done because there should be more control of what comes out and little by little to solve the bugs that appear in the kernel, something that if there were and working well, would not cause bugs to exist since version 3.15. In any case, if you like to create and use your own kernel, it would be better to wait for the next version or maybe not?