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Contributor type as string rather than boolean

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
backend, databases

Research direction

The issue names the is_individual field but no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating every use of is_individual, then determine the allowed contributor values and the migration scope; done means the chosen representation works consistently throughout the system.

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Description

enhancement

At the moment contributor type is signal;led by a boolean (is_individual = true / false). It would be more useful to turn this into a string with pre-specified values, or evenm an integer
1: Individual
2: Organisation
3: Group
4. Government agency
But this would require rippling through the entire system

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C#
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