Is it "JIRA" or "Jira"?

[Darren]

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?

[Josh Steckler · Accepted solution]

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

[Matt Doar]

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

[Darren]

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]

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!

[Kelly Schuknecht]

Hi - We use Confluence Server and it is still auto-correcting "Jira" to "JIRA". We have confirmed that it is not in the browser settings, so it is Confluence somehow doing it. We are on version 6.5.2 so it seems like it should have been updated. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Wait for Atlassian to fix Confluence.  That's the only supported answer I have I'm afraid.

[Matt Doar]

type Jira, it corrects it, then use the Undo (Ctrl-Z for me) shortcut to undo the autocorrect

[Kelly Schuknecht]

Thanks Nic and Matt! I guess I'll just be patient, even though for some reason this drives me bonkers.

[Kyle]

My next-gen Scrum project home is still titled "Project Name - Roadmap - JIRA".

[T Chambers]

I interpret the vestiges of JIRA still in Atlassian products to mean the developers are too busy working on higher priority cards in their sprints to fix this.

[Dan R]

...So AITA because I like to still call it JIRA when I refer to it because I feel like it gives me street cred?

[Josh Steckler]

I still proudly wear my old Charlie logo Atlassian shirts. NTA

[Eric Narciso]

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...

[Josh Steckler]

Defender?