http://qs1969.pair.com?node_id=1226750

Say, for example, I get eaten by a bear, roll my truck off into the lake, get crushed by falling mountain boulders or otherwise burn in a fire, I'm wondering what will happen with my CPAN distributions.

I mean, I won't care if I'm dead, but if they are being used (from what I can tell, they are in a 'minimalistic' sense (I don't know numbers)), what happens? By default after years of trying to understand, they'll fall into a state of disrepair and then go through the normal channel of adaption.

I'm wondering what my fellow Monks think about this.

My question here, is would it be worth working it up the chain to have a "will" of sorts; someone you could "dedicate" your distributions to, within the Makefile (or whatever dist thingy one uses). A new attribute, effective across all build platforms and accepted by CPAN, that acknowledges who you want to oversee what you've written.

I'm not talking about co-auth here. I'm talking about someone who may not even care about one's work. I'm talking about someone who cares about Perl enough that one would feel comfortable with rightfully distributing one's distributions accordingly, because they are somewhat familiar with the Perl ecosystem.

This is totally off the wall, but I've been through so much in the last 24 months, that I'm trying to think of everything.

Would a IF_I_DIE flag within a Makefile.PL that is easily searchable be a good idea, or an idea of a madman who keeps buying sensors to write Perl around?