Note: For those not sure what I'm talking about in the title, I'm referring to this bus factor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
I brought this up with another developer recently and they didn't have an answer, so I thought I'd pose this to HN and see how it goes. Do you have plans for your work if you get hit by a bus and, if so, what are they (if you can say)? In other words, if you can no longer work on and provide what you work on, what happens to that work? What do you think should happen to that work?
This seems like something we ought to prepare for, seeing as most of probably aren't permanently on one job for our lives (aside from living, I suppose). Not necessarily planning for what happens after you die (though you probably want to do that some day), but just what happens when the software or what have you isn't something you'll return to or can return to, but you still retain control of it.
So, what do you want to do? Open source it? Stick it on a disk or server and leave it be for someone else to find and decipher? Destroy it and let that be the end of it? I'd like to hear your plans if you have any right now.
