Re: Investigation on the diffusion of innovation along with java releases

2019-07-31 Thread Matt Foley
Hi Fernando, You ask interesting questions, and the following is of course just my opinion. But I believe it has a lot to do with SWE principles. When you’re doing engineering, as opposed to research, your software product may have literally millions of people depending on it to work well and

Re: Investigation on the diffusion of innovation along with java releases

2019-07-31 Thread Robert Scholte
Hi, we'd like to be able to run Maven on a wide range of Java versions, the more the better. Currently Maven can be built and executed with Java 7 up to Java 13-ea. Looking back at some history of the minimum required version of Java to run Maven you'll see that once Java 1.7 was EOL we sta

Investigation on the diffusion of innovation along with java releases

2019-07-31 Thread f . petrulio
Dear Developers, we are members of the ZEST research group (Zurich Empirical Software Engineering Team) based at the University of Zurich and the Delft University of Technology. We are conducting an investigation on the diffusion of innovations and we focus on the adoption of new language featu