Dear Galaxy team,
I have been making use of the workflow feature in Galaxy and I think it is an excellent way to make use of the tools and share analyses with others. Recently I have noticed that some of steps within the workflow have been disconnected due to tool changes.
"Problems were encountered loading this workflow (possibly a result of tool upgrades). Please review the following parameters and then save."
A week ago I reconnected the workflow steps yesterday found that some step were disconnected. I corrected this yesterday and was able to save and test it. Today however I have returned to the workflow and the again several of the connections between functions have been lost. I was planning on using and publishing a link to this workflow (i.e. for a manuscript). Is this a good idea or is it still a beta function which will not be stable? I have a bit of a complex workflow and I am not sure if it is a good idea to continue to repair it? Any feedback on how one should work with the workflows would be great.
Perhaps one nice feature would be a way to freeze/lock-down a workflow so it will run inspite of future Galaxy updgrades (in addition to having a more plastic one that evolves along with the upgrades). Also a way to export the workflow in a meaningful way would be useful as it can be difficult to remember all the step once the links are broken.
Thanks again for your help.
Best regards, Mike