are round_id's required to be date format?

[nickreich]

This came up as @bsweger and I were thinking about the config files for a new hub. Do we assume that all round_id values will be dates, and in a parseable YYYY-MM-DD format? If so, that seems maybe usefully opinionated but also maybe a bit too restrictive? Anyways, just trying to recall what our motivation was for this decision, or how active of a decision it was. Any recollections or pointers would be useful. Maybe @annakrystalli @elray1 @LucieContamin have ideas?

[bsweger]

Adding some context:

This is the round_id definition in our schema: https://github.com/Infectious-Disease-Modeling-Hubs/schemas/blob/main/v2.0.1/tasks-schema.json#L27

Which contains examples like:

"examples": [
              "round-1",
              "2022-11-05",
              "origin_date"
                  ],

But there is code in hubValidations that is parsing filenames and expects the round_id piece to match the YYYY-MM-DD format: https://github.com/Infectious-Disease-Modeling-Hubs/hubValidations/blob/main/R/parse_file_name.R#L27

[LucieContamin]

If I remember correctly, you can use a specific date, name or use a column name that contains the expected value, for example origin_date. But I guess the most frequent usage is a date format.

[elray1]

no, we do not have such a requirement.

Edit: actually read Becky's comment, and saw that she linked to the schema already. I'd say we should file this as an issue to clean up in hubValidations.

[annakrystalli]

Just dropping in link to relevant conversation regarding this topic during hubValidations development: Infectious-Disease-Modeling-Hubs/hubValidations#13