JQL query for issues not assigned to component lead?

[Steinar Bang]

I am trying to make a query for open issues not yet claimed by a developer.

It's easy to find those that are unassigned.

I would also like to find open issues that are assigned to the component lead (that's the default assignment for new issues).

Does anyone know of a JQL query that can find the issues of a particular state that is not assigned to the component lead?

Thanks!

- Steinar

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

Are you trying to find issues that were assigned by default and were not changed since then? If so, you can probably do the following:

!(assignee changed)

There is not JQL function to search based on component lead unless there is a plugin that does it.

[Steinar Bang]

Thanks! :-)

This does 90% of what I wanted to do!

The only issues I won't find are those that are taken and then put back to the component lead, when released, because that was the way they were before they were taken.  But we can just tell people to set them back to unassigned when they decide not to take the issues after all (hopefully some will do just that..;-) )

[Steinar Bang]

The full JQL in case somebody are interested:

status = "To Do" AND ((assignee = null) OR !(assignee changed))