Confused from search results with "assignee changed by"

Question

Hello there,

I'm confused by Jira's search results.

All issues with a certain componend (let's call it "requiredcomponent") are managed by user "K"

project="OURPROJECT" and component="requiredcomponent"

---> 1350 issues found

So far so good.

project="OURPROJECT" and component="requiredcomponent" and assignee changed by "K"

---> 588 issues found

What's confusing now is that the counter test does not quite fit

project="OURPROJECT" and component="requiredcomponent" and !(assignee changed by "K")

---> 148 issues found

So, there are 1350 issues in total of which 588 were assigned by "K" and 148 were not assigned by "K" ?

I'm sure I'm missing something here ... Any ideas?

Jim Constant · Answer

Hi Marc,

Is it possible the assignee hasn't been changed by anyone on the missing items (changed by K + changed by people other than K + never changed = 1350)?

Jim

Boris Georgiev [Appfire] · Answer

* Do you have unassigned issues ? 
* 588 issues have a record in their history which says that the assingee was changed by user K 
* 148 issues have a history record saying that the assignee was changed by someone else (different than user K)
* The rest of the issues were probably never assigned, so there is no issue history record saying that a user changes the assignee field