# New JIRA Projects for Knife Plugins

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/new-jira-projects-for-knife-plugins/1850>\
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**Created:** [May 19, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/new-jira-projects-for-knife-plugins/1850 "2011-05-19T23:23:50Z")\
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With Chef 0.10 we merged in support for modular plugins to knife. We  
leveraged this functionality to split the knife cloud commands and the  
knife windows command into separate projects. This resolved a lot of  
dependency issues, like we can now require Fog for the knife plugins  
that use it, without adding it as a dependency for chef itself. We’ve  
also been able to release fixes to the plugins much faster because  
they are independent projects. To some degree this has been going on  
behind the scenes but we’ve been working toward making it much more  
visible.

There is now a list of the Chef related projects on the wiki [1],  
including links to the proper ticketing (JIRA) projects for each. The  
new projects added are:

Knife-EC2  
Knife-Rackspace  
Knife-Openstack  
Knife-Windows

If you’ve signed a CLA or CCLA, then you’ve been previously added to  
the ‘jira-developers’ role on the ticketing system. This gives you  
many additional privileges that you can use to help triage tickets.  
We’ve moved a number of tickets from the Chef project in JIRA to the  
new projects. If you’re an approved contributor you can as well by  
clicking “More Options” on the menu at the top of the ticket and then  
"Move." Choose the appropriate project from the list and step through  
the pages to complete the move. Don’t worry about setting affected  
version at this point.

We’re in contact with the great folks over at Bluebox [2] and they’re  
going to plan to take over support for the knife bluebox plugin. We’ll  
get you more information on this as it develops.

Since Rackspace has acquired Slicehost, we’re orphaning the knife  
slicehost plugin.

We’re waiting to see what happens with the Verizon acquisition in  
regard to the Terremark plugin. If anyone is interested in maintaining  
this, please contact me off list.

–  
Bryan McLellan | opscode | senior systems administrator  
© 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) [http://blog.loftninjas.org](http://blog.loftninjas.org)

[1] [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/How+to+Contribute](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/How+to+Contribute)  
[2] [http://www.bluebox.net/](http://www.bluebox.net/)