Over on PHPComplete, there's a new posting from a posting over off of the pear-dev mailing list about Quality Assurance in the PHP world.

While it's pretty hard to enforce something like this, they try to put out there a few rules and ideas that might help things.

As someone with managerial experience of running testing setups, I do not think that having a 'nominated panel' is the way to go. QA is not the province of a select few. It definitely is not something you bolt on the side, or something you farm out for others to do for you. To do it well, it has to be something that everyone buys into, and that everyone does.

The rules that they state could help things, but only, like they say, if everyone buys into it and works with it. I can't see this being something that would be imposed on the PHP community, nor some outside agency looking at your script and saying "passed". Rather, I think the idea here is that everyone takes these rules to heart and passes that onto their code.