JQL WAS operator can not search for a username by full name

Hi,

I was looking a customer issue (JSP-122240) and discover a bug on JIRA.

How to replicate:

• Create a clean JIRA instance;
• create two users (Administrator - login admin / User 1 - login user)
• Create a new project (e.g. Project X - PX);
• Create 4 issues (PX-1, PX-2, PX-3, PX-4);
• Assign one issue (PX-2) for the user User 1 and the others for the Administrator;

Try the following queries:

• project=PX AND assignee was "admin"
  • response: 4 issues

• project=PX AND assignee = "admin"
  • response: 3 issues

• project=PX AND assignee = "Administrator"
  • response: 3 issues

• project=PX AND assignee was "Administrator"
  • response: No matching issues found.

The last query supposed to bring 4 issues, like the first one, but looks like the operator WAS just work with the Username and not with the Full Name.

Cheers,
Andre Petry
Atlassian Support