bug: unnecessary compulsory fields for add command

[wxiaoyun]

Description

• As many computing students apply for internships, most the applications don't go through a recruiter (apply through company job portal for example). Hence, making CONTACT_NAME, CONTACT_EMAIL compulsory can make the app harder to use and potentially less helpful.

Steps to reproduce

• Run this command: add /com Netflix /desc test /status to_apply

Expected

• Add command only need company and status as compulsory fields

Actual

• Contact name, email are compulsory and running add commands without them will be rejected

Potential Suggestions

• Make contact name and email optional fields

Screenshots

[soc-pe-bot]

Team's Response

Without making contact name and phone number compulsory, our app will no longer be an internship application manager that doubles as an internship contact management app.

Should we do this, we would violate the brownfield constraints by morphing AB3 in a different direction (since it is no longer a contact manager). Thus, it is necessary for us to keep contact name and phone number compulsory.

Items for the Tester to Verify

:question: Issue response

Team chose [response.Rejected]

• [x] I disagree

Reason for disagreement: I agree with the team's decision on every other issue I have reported but I am afraid I must insist my position regarding this issue.

CareerSync User Guide

Decision refutation

I would argue that changing previously compulsory fields to optional field would fall under "evolving/enhancing/morphing the given code base...incrementally", hence it does not violate the brownfield constraint. Furthermore, this change (compulsory -> optional) is already made in my group's TP, so it should be fine.

Also in the UG, CareerSync is stated to be "internship application manager" instead of "contact manager", so I do not exactly follow the "it will no longer be a contact manager" argument made.

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## :question: Issue severity Team chose [`severity.Low`] Originally [`severity.Medium`] - [x] I disagree **Reason for disagreement:** ### CareerSync User Guide  ### Severity refutation Given that the user guide stated "CareerSync is an internship application manager designed to _simplify_ the management of internship applications", I would hope CareerSync to at least not _complicate_ management of internship applications. Most soc students apply for internship via online job portals such as LinkedIn, JobWiz, NodeFlair, etc, etc. A smaller portion of applications go through Recruiters, HRs directly (e.g. Career Fairs). As a soc students with majority of the applications that does not involve a contact, being forced to put dummy values for contact number, email would make this application quite unhelpful in managing my internship applications (feeding the application with noise data just to make it work). Furthermore, due to the bad job market, students often have to apply to more than a hundred roles for a chance of getting interviewed. Having additional road blocks to the application process simply make the internship worse for students. Hence, I insist on **Medium** severity.

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