Robert
Reverse Engineer
There already is one, right here.Echoing my request for a protected courtesy Vcc out on the boards.
Seriously though, I do like the idea but I'd only want to do it if it could be uniform across all of the projects and that might be a little tricky on some of the dense layouts.
I've considered another version of the DC jack breakout board to include polarity protection and additional filtering, that might be the best way to handle something like that.