As per JIRA documentation http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/latest
The following filter will show the issues opned by me (Current User).
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You could also follow the approach presented by Matt Doar:
Use a participants field from the JIRA Toolkit plugin and query that
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching?focusedCommentId=229838922#comment-229838922
It's not a a complete answer but maybe a step in the right direction... Francis
You can try that workaround I am current using this expression on my saved search:
comment ~ "your.username.here"
This in fact catch the comments where I was mentioned, but if you mention yourself probably should works. I have not tried by myself.
My current Jira is a cloud based one, so I can't tell you exactly which version is.
I had the same problem and
issueFunction in commented("by username")
worked for me
The following query identifies tickets in which current (or some other particular) user was mentioned in comments:
comment ~ currentUser()
If you're talking only about the current user, there is a personal Activity Stream in your profile
https://xxx.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa
It includes actions other than comments, but does provide an RSS feed which you could filter only comments with:
<category term="comment"/>
For filtering issues in which you have been mentioned, try comment ~ currentUser()
You can use the Activity Stream gadget with a filter configured by username and activity type. Note that this requires a case-sensitive username, not the friendly Display Name.
Activity Stream gadget configuration:
Filtered Activity Stream display:
(I posted a variation of this answer elsewhere but have improved my filter since then and the new filter is more salient to this question anyhow.)