The League of Extraordinary Packages is:

a group of developers who have banded together to build solid, well tested PHP packages using modern coding standards.

This seems like something we might want to emulate for WP-CLI packages. On a high-level, I expect WP-CLI packages to be:

• Reliable - Work well, and do what they need to do.
• Focused - Solve a specific problem.
• Well-maintained - Bugs are fixed and issues responded to (if not resolved) in a timely manner
• Tested - Good amount of functional test coverage, with unit test coverage as relevant.
• Understandable - Follow reasonably common implementation standards.

Ultimately, I'd like WP-CLI packages to meet or exceed the expectations users already have of WP-CLI. I think there are some systems (both technical and organizational) we could design to help encourage this. Ideas:

• Automated scanning of packages as they're submitted to the index, or on an on-going basis Validate packages submitted to the package index #3177
• Written guidelines for package maintainers to follow.
• Highlight packages in the index that are regularly updated, have multiple maintainers, or reflect some other quality we hold to be important.

Consider this to be an open thread; I'm curious to here what people think about how we get from here to there.