module rating

[bradfordcondon]

See: tripal/tripal#774

Bronze

• Has a public release.
• Should install on a Tripal site appropriate for the versions it supports.
• Defines any custom tables or materialized views in the install file (if applicable).
• Adds any needed controlled vocabulary terms in the install file (Tripal3).
• Provides Installation and admin instructions README.md (or RTD).
• Has a license (distributed with module).

Silver

• Follows basic Drupal Coding standards; specifically, code format and API documentation.
• Uses Tripal API functions. Specifically, it should use the Chado Query API for querying chado (if using chado as the storage system)
• Tripal Jobs API for long running processes
• TripalField class to add data to pages (Tripal3).
• Provides ways to customize the module (e.g. drush options, field/formatter settings, admin UI).
• Latest releases should follow Drupal naming best practices. e.g. first release for Drupal 7 should be: 7.x-1.x.

Gold

• Extensive documentation for the module (similar to Tripal User’s Guide).
• Unit testing is implemented using PHPUnit with the TripalTestSuite or something similar.
• Continuous integration is setup (e.g. such as with TravisCI).
• Imports data via Tripal’s importer class (Tripal3).
• Tripal 3 fields are (Tutorial) Fully compatible with web services.
• The elementInfo function is fully implemented.
• The query and queryOrder functions fully implemented.
• Web Services uses Tripal’s Web Service Classes (Tripal3).
• Code sniffing and testing coverage reports (optional but encouraged).
• Drupal.org vetted release (optional but encouraged).

[bradfordcondon]

once #202 can be merged, we can create a release, and then we will be all clear for gold.