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Using Pivotal Tracker
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## Abstract
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The Core Improvements swarm tracks its workflow in a Pivotal project. Although GitHub items can still be created to facilitate communication, the official way to track progress of a functionality/bug fix is in Pivotal.
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[Project board link](https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2232205)
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## Creating Pivotal Stories
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Fill in `Story Type`, `Requester`, `Owner` (if already assigned), and `Points` (if an estimate is available). Add a description and optionally group it using a label. As a rule of thumb, Pivotal stories should be grouped in epics for better high-level visibility. Although labels can be used to group stories, the prescribed way to do that is through epics.
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You can add tasks under a Story for smaller items that don't warrant its own Story.
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Do add the link to the Pull Request to the Story when one is available.
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## Lifetime of a Pivotal story
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The `State` field in the Pivotal story is used to track the progress of a Pivotal Story, and has the following interpretation:
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| State | Meaning |
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| ---------- | -------- |
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| `Unstarted` | In backlog |
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| `Started` | Developer has started work on story |
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| `Finished` | Developer has finished work on story (Pull Request for story is in [REVIEW](https://github.com/status-im/status-react/projects/7#column-1843024) column in [Pipeline for QA](https://github.com/status-im/status-react/projects/7) board) |
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| `Delivered` | Pull Request for story is in testing in [Pipeline for QA](https://github.com/status-im/status-react/projects/7) board) board |
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| `Accepted` | PR has been merged |
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| `Rejected` | PR has been aborted |
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### Rules of thumb
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- **Q:** _When to create a Pivotal story?_
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**A:** Stories should be created whenever estimated work exceeds half a day, or when part of a bigger epic.
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- **Q:** _What do points equate to?_
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**A:** We've agreed to make 3 points equate roughly to 1 day of work. From there, we can extrapolate:
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| Points | Estimated Time |
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| -------- | ---------------- |
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| 0 points | < 1 hour |
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| 1 points | 1 hour - 0.5 days|
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| 2 points | 0.5 - 1 days |
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| 3 points | ~1 day |
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| 5 points | 2 - 3 days |
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| 8 points | ~1 week |
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We should avoid 8 point stories by breaking them down into smaller stories as much as possible. |