GSoC: Port Diff module to Drupal 8

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Hi,

I am Lucian Hangea from Romania and I am a Computer Science undergraduate. My project for Google Summer of Code 2014 is 'Port Diff module to Drupal 8'.
Diff module: https://drupal.org/project/diff
I think this module doesn't need a lot of introduction since it is quite popular and its functionality is pretty straightforward: it provides the ability to make comparisons between entities and make the differences visually noticeable (more details here : https://groups.drupal.org/node/407793#project24).
Our primary goal (me: https://drupal.org/user/2743803 and my mentor Aron Novak: https://drupal.org/user/61864) is to define a good API for this module so that other modules can take advantage of it and maybe provide comparisons for their custom defined fields.
If you want to help us feel free to visit the following link: https://drupal.org/node/2267033 where we discuss with the maintainers of Diff module trying to get to the best possible result.
Any advice, opinion is highly appreciated.
Also I created a sandbox where for the start I will commit my code: https://drupal.org/sandbox/lhangea/2269693 (the first commits will be done in the following days).

Feel free to conatct me. You can find me on IRC #drupal-google, #drupal-contribute, #gsoc (nick: lhangea)