Max:

Couldn't we actually "encode" that in the description field on Jira so these scripts and the ones in jiralint and whatsnew scripts could share that info ?

Nick:

You mean add something like #jbosstools-aerogear into the description so we can parse it over the REST API?
Yes, we could pull the description field as JSON:
https://issues.jboss.org/rest/api/2/component/12320840

The above tiny script could then be called from other scripts to pull a parent project name for any given properly declared JIRA component, in order to avoid maintenance like this:

https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build-ci/pull/115
https://github.com/jbdevstudio/jbdevstudio-ci/pull/141