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What does the acronym JIRA stand for?

Bob Schildhauer
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October 24, 2018

What does the acronym JIRA stand for?

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October 24, 2018

Also note that the former all-caps spelling may lead one to believe that it is an acronym, though as others have explained, it is not ... but Atlassian somewhat recently changed the spelling from JIRA to Jira.

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July 11, 2020

If I type "JIRA" in a Jira comment box it auto-corrects it to "Jira".

That's crafty...

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July 11, 2020

Yep, that's what it was rebranded to a few years ago, so the auto-correct is now reflecting the current name.

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October 24, 2018

Hello,

That is what is written in Wikipedia:

The product name is a truncation of Gojira, the Japanese word for Godzilla

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October 24, 2018

There's a little story about the name:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=223219957

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October 24, 2018

Rawr. ;-)

Jira was written as a direct competitor to "Bugzilla", named after the mis-translation of "Gojira" to "Godzilla".  Mike and Scott just nicked the "zilla" bit and spelled it more closely to the Japanese usage (There's no strong Z sound in Japanese).

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October 24, 2018

maybe it is Jump In Right Away? ;-)

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