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I've always heard "jee rah" and it's very close to the way french coworkers used to pronounce it in french too.

If I'm not mistaken Atlassian Jira promotional vids and tutorials do say "jee rah" too.

And FWIW, not a very reliable source but ChatGPT says it's that too if you ask it.

Are people saying "jie ray"?

I had never considered that there might be other ways to pronounce it. I’m gonna start saying it “zhee-rá” now

As a start the product name is written as "Jira"

Jira's name comes from the Japanese name of Godzilla (ゴジラ, Gojira). Reason why is because it was intended to be a "Bugzilla killer". I have never heard anyone pronounce Jira incorrectly, always like "Jeera".

Yee-Ra, like Javascript is yava-script.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Apparently it is based on Japanese characters, so I guess you have to go to that language to get the correct pronunciation.

I dunno, though, it would be more fun to pronounce it like “He-ra”

Jira (/ˈdʒiːrə/ JEE-rə) says wikipedia, I had it right :)

as a truncation of Gojira (go jee rah), i assume it is "jee rah" as others have stated here.