Rafael Dohms has posted some if his own thoughts to his site about The League of Extraordinary Packages and why he supports their efforts to bring a good solid base of curated packages to the PHP ecosystem.

“The League of Extraordinary Packages” is what I have dubbed a collective of composer packages. Its essentially a group of developers who have gathered under a single flag (or in this case a vendor name) and set standards for the packages that live there.

Why does this even matter? Well for one Packagist is an open repository, this means that it is wide open for anyone to join, from the best packages to the most ridiculous ones. Quality control is not one of its roles and quality checking is on average 2-3 clicks per package away.

He talks about the quality control measures The League has in place to only contain good, well-tested and solid PHP packages. He also lists a few of his main reasons for supporting the effort including the fact that it reduces author fragility and provides an extended reach for those packages to reach a wider audience.

I really enjoy the work being done by The League, or The PHPLeague, or Pleague as I prefer to call it. I think it has provided us with some very good packages and given us all something to strive for. Maybe more collectives is what we need.