Can we implement OWNER and ASSIGNEE in Jira?

aleksey.shishkin January 19, 2020

We use Kanban at our development project. Each issue should have only one person responsible for it at any time (a developer, a reviewer, a tester), as it was originaly designed.

But in a development project there's another important person - a developer who implemented this issue. I'd like to always have this person visible on a card, because he is often the only one who can answer questions about the issue implementation, limitations, etc.

So I would like to have two things on a card:

  1. an original developer (owner)
  2. a person currently responsible for the issue (assignee)

How can I achieve this? (I'm a Jira project Administartor, but I'm not a Jira admin).

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Fernando Bordallo
Atlassian Team
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January 19, 2020

You would need to set up a new custom field of 'User picker' type. You can find more information on how to do it here: 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/adding-a-custom-field-938847222.html

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Jack Brickey
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January 19, 2020

And then you can add that field to the card layout under board settings.

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