I use GoJira for this (https://github.com/go-jira/jira) and I'm mostly happy with it.
Gojira is the original name of Godzilla and the name of a heavy metal band so I always have to include "github" when I search for it.
Gojira is the original name of Godzilla and the name of a heavy metal band so I always have to include "github" when I search for it.
Which is also where Jira's name originates
Interesting, I would have thought "jira" was two syllables, but I know absolutely nothing about Japanese, so I assume this is correct and the pronunciation rules are just not what I'm used to from English.
It is in fact two syllables.
Fun fact: Gojira is the combination of 'Go' of 'Gorilla' and 'jira' of 'kujira' (whale). It is said, kujira comes from the combination of old Japanese 'ku' (black) and 'shira' (white) aka 'black white' after the coloration of killer whales. So at some level Jira derives from the word "white". I could probably trace back the roots for shira a bit, but I need to get some work done.
Maybe you're suffering from the usual learning curve thing where non-native speakers have trouble differentiating parts of words, because the emphasis and pronunciation simply isn't what you're used to.
Native speakers don't emphasize every syllable separately, just like you wouldn't emphasize every syllable in na-ti-ve; or how a non-native speaker like me would try to split "separate" into syllables that as se-pa-rate or se-pa-ra-te instead sep-a-rate.
(As someone who knows a couple handfuls of Japanese words, and comes from a language with somewhat similar phonemes, gojira is pronounced exactly how I expect it to be pronounced.)
Aha, okay, that's what I was thinking; I was confused by the phrasing that Wikipedia used (i.e. "the product name comes from the second syllable") and assumed that meant that "jira" was a single syllable (the second), and thought that I might be missing something about how the pronunciation works. It sounds like I was just misreading the Wikipedia quote though, so thanks for bearing with my confusion and explaining it!
The bit I struggled with a bit was the template system, but once you have your templates set up you don't have to touch them again (unless things change on the Jira side). There's a section in the README about working with templates.
I set up some aliases to make things easier too, for example to see what needs to be worked on I have an alias 'sprint' for:
jira ls -q "sprint='$JIRA_SPRINT' and status in ('In Progress', 'Peer Review', 'To Do')" | sort -k 2
Jira not so much.