Comment by cpeterso

In fact, the name “Jira” is a reference to Bugzilla. Atlassian says:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/mobile?cont...

> We originally used Bugzilla for bug tracking and the developers in the office started calling it by the Japanese name for Godzilla, Gojira (the original black-and-white Japanese Godzilla films are also office favourites). As we developed our own bug tracker, and then it became an issue tracker, the name stuck, but the Go got dropped - hence JIRA.