Ideas for future enhancements

[bentsherman]

Currently the nf-quilt plugin can publish a single package for a workflow run, with the option to select files by name.

Here is a list of feature enhancements that we are considering:

• allow multiple quilt packages to be published, with a config block for each package
• add fromQuilt channel factory to download a quilt package and emit files to a channel
• add publishQuilt operator to publish received files to a quilt package, allows user to select files with pipeline logic instead of config (also supports publishing multiple packages) (similar to publish operator idea)

All of these ideas are feasible to implement, but I think we should try to figure out what users would prefer before we move forward with any of them. In particular I'd like to understand how users feel about the "config" approach vs "pipeline logic" approach.

[Midnighter]

I had some thoughts after the summit presentation https://github.com/quiltdata/nf-quilt3/issues/2

[drernie]

Note: we are addressing these issues with a revamped nf-quilt plug-in currently under internal review at Quilt:

https://github.com/quiltdata/nf-quilt/pull/3

We will propose it as a PR back here once it is ready.