GSoC 2017 Project: Port "Vote up/down" module to Drupal 8

Introduction

The project is about porting the 'vote up/down' module from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8.

Module info

Vote up/down is a module which can be employed to add voting widgets to various content of your Drupal powered website.

Aspects of the project

• Changing the Drupal Configuration System
• Implement the changed Dependencies
• Changing the deprecated APIs and methods with the new counterparts
• Changing the Drupal theming. Replace tpl.php with TWIG counterparts
• Porting automated tests from D7 to D8

Internal structure of module

• vud: This is the base sub-module for this project. All other parts are based on it. It depends directly on Voting API and chaos tools
• vud_field: This is the sub-module for this project which creates a field for a voting widget.
• vud_node: This is the sub-module for this project which adds a voting widget to a node.
• vud_comment: This is the sub-module for this project which adds a voting widget to a comment.
• vud_term: This is the sub-module for this project which adds a voting widget to a taxonomy term.

Deliverables

Fully functional and stable module for Drupal 8.