Hierachy of stories/tasks?

[Andrew Chung]

Does it make more sense to have a task with stories as dependencies where the task has a estimate of zero? You would enter the stories as children of the tasks with estimates? How are people using JIRA to track tasks and stories?

[Jack Brickey]

A task cannot have a story as a child. The relationships are:

Epic > Story/Task

Story/Task > Sub-task

Regarding estimations, I will either estimate the story and leave the sub-tasks un-estimated or estimate the sub-tasks and just have that roll up to the story/task. I avoid estimating in both the parent and child.