Yes, "assignee" has a looser definition and can be used differently to suit a teams need. In our team of 8 devs, in most PRs we have 1 reviewer, who suggests changes and ultimately approves the PR. During review phase, "assignee" is the person who opened the PR; later on if PR is picked up by other developer, a new "assignee" is added.

Jul 27, 2022 · Assignee (and Assign to me) Who should I assign it to? I mean, if I assign it to me, it is going to be me who "reviews" the change and approves it, so what is the point? Or should I assign it to the repository administrator? Or to other member reviewers, so that they can check that and approve the merge?

Apr 6, 2010 · assignee was currentUser() should do it. It will also include issues that are currently assigned to you. If it doesn't, try: (assignee = currentUser() OR assignee was currentUser())

Jun 7, 2012 · I have seen also that some users change assignee to the name of reporter, in order to ping the reporter to answer their question in a comment. I deprecate this usage. It may mean that your miss a workflow step (such as "Waiting for reporter"), or have a missing a filter condition in a gadget or board, or miss notification to the reporter on ...

Feb 21, 2025 · 100% agree with only one assignee. This should be the person accountable for making sure that the task gets done. I suggest adding the Multi-Assignees field to your projects and using this field to identify those who are actually responsible for doing the work.

Dec 27, 2016 · We use "assignee" to designate person who opened the Pull Request and is responsible for making the Pull Request comment/change requests. At times, if a QA is involved with merging & closing the PR, QA-person is also added as assignee. Using "assignee" helps locating the PR in future easily. One of my project has >3000 PRs.

Jan 27, 2010 · Any change in the assignee for any issue is captured by below query: select distinct p.pkey +'-'+cast(ji.issuenum as varchar(max)), ji.SUMMARY, cast(ci.OLDSTRING as nvarchar(max)) as 'Old value', cast(ci.NEWSTRING as nvarchar(max)) as 'New value' from jiraissue ji join project p on p.id = ji.PROJECT join changegroup cg on cg.issueid = ji.id ...

Feb 1, 2013 · assignee = currentUser() This works ok, but doesn't show me tasks that are assigned to someone else, but have subtasks assigned to me. Is it possible to make it show me both tasks assigned to me, and tasks that have subtasks assigned to me?

Feb 21, 2018 · The project lead exited the company. With his access revoked, Jira wouldn't create issues and default the assignee to a suspended user. Hence you have to change this. To change the project lead and default assignee, go to Project Settings and navigate to the Details tab to change the default assignee or project lead

Oct 11, 2022 · I'm working on a Power Automate flow where the flow is supposed to connect to Planner, get the tasks which are due tomorrow and send a message to an MS Teams Channel. I got the entire flow working ...