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Is it "JIRA" or "Jira"?

Darren_3xxj1j

until now (November 2017) I've been writing JIRA "JIRA" - it's how it was historically

I just noticed my Confluence Cloud site auto-corrected "JIRA" to "Jira" - so it made me quickly check the Atlassian site...

....and I can see it's now "Jira"

Does anyone know the backstory? Was it JIRA and now it's Jira?

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Josh Steckler

They announced at Summit in September alongside the new logos that Jira is now no longer fully capitalized.

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Josh Steckler

They announced at Summit in September alongside the new logos that Jira is now no longer fully capitalized.

Matt Doar_tzgiej

And all other Atlassian products dropped any CamelCase names. Marketing trends I guess

Darren_3xxj1j

Thanks Josh and Matt. Out of interest, any idea why it was all capitals ("JIRA") in the first place? It was named after a japanese godzilla so not an acronym, so why the capitals?

Matt Doar_tzgiej

I don't know. It was from the era of Java or JAVA so maybe that was related. Or the name needed some oopmh - JIRA, JIRA!

Eric Narciso_2cfpbn

Haha, so way back, the original bug tracking software most companies used was called "Bugzilla" blast from the past, I know. Then JIRA came along which someone already said correctly that the Japanese name for Godzilla is Gojira (ゴジラ), or shortened to JIRA, and was meant to symbolize bugzilla's older brother Godzilla. Then they added "Greenhopper" for project management, which I don't know the full story, kinda gave up on deciphering it.

Back when companies used to have a lot of fun with release names, product names, and team names...

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