Standardize File Naming Conventions: Replace Mixed Usage of Hyphens and Underscores

[wjbmattingly]

Current Status

Currently, our project uses inconsistent naming conventions across files. Some examples:

• Hyphenated: run-all.sh, run-merge.py
• Underscored: import_parallel.sh, load_parallel.sh

Problem

This inconsistency:

• Makes it harder to search for files
• Reduces code maintainability
• Creates confusion about which convention to follow for new files
• Could lead to issues on different operating systems

Proposed Solution

Standardize all file names to use underscores, following Python's PEP 8 style guide. This would mean:

Current Name -> New Name

• run-all.sh -> run_all.sh
• run-merge.py -> run_merge.py
• make-test-dataset.py -> make_test_dataset.py

Files that already use underscores (like import_parallel.sh) would remain unchanged.

Implementation Steps

1. Create a script to automatically rename files
2. Update all import statements and file references in the codebase
3. Update documentation to reflect the new naming convention
4. Add a linting rule to enforce this convention going forward

Additional Considerations

• Need to coordinate with team members to ensure no active work on affected files during the rename
• Should update CI/CD pipelines to verify new naming convention
• Consider adding to contributing guidelines

Tasks

• Identify the different patterns
• Propose a single standard
• Change filenames This will cause breaking changes
• Update codebase to prevent breaking changes

Priority

Low

[wjbmattingly]

Another issue here is the appearance of naming conventions like checkDataUpdates.py.