ProfHeat

Optimize heat demand and electricity price integration with ease.
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About The Project 🌐

ProfHeat simplifies the integration of heat demand and electricity prices, making complex calculations and decision-making processes more straightforward. Designed for efficiency and ease of use, ProfHeat is the go-to application for optimizing your assets.

Key Features 💡

• Effortless Optimization: Integrates heat demand and electricity prices quickly and accurately.
• Sleek User Interface: Uses FluentUI design principles for a seamless user experience.
• Multi-Platform Compatibility: Works smoothly across Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
• Time-Saving: Automates optimization to eliminate manual calculations.

Getting Started 🚀

Prerequisites:

• Ensure .NET 8.0 desktop runtime is installed.
• Install the Avalonia UI template for .NET by running this in your terminal:

dotnet new install Avalonia.Templates

• For editing Avalonia UI projects in Visual Studio Code, install the Avalonia for Visual Studio Code extension.

Installation:

1. Download the latest release from releases.
2. Follow the installation guide provided with the release.

Contributing 🤝

For a smooth collaboration process, please use GitHub Desktop:

• Note: Forking is creating a personal copy of the repository. It's used when you don't have write access to the repository.

1. Clone: Open GitHub Desktop, go to File > Clone Repository, and paste:

   https://github.com/SP-SoftFuzz/ProfHeat/
   

2. Branch: Switch to main using the branch switcher, create a new branch for your feature. Name it after the JIRA issue key and feature, e.g., SCRUM-123-Feature.

3. Commit: Enter your commit message in the Summary (required) field and click Commit.

4. Push: Click Push origin to upload your changes to GitHub.

5. Pull Request: On GitHub, create a New pull request against main. Include the Jira issue key in the title of your pull request, e.g., SCRUM-123: Added feature, fill in the details, and submit.

   

6. Request a Review: Tag a teammate in your pull request for a review.

7. Stacking: Instead of waiting for approval, continue working on another feature based on your current feature work. On your feature branch (not main), create a new branch Current Branch > New Branch for the next feature, e.g., SCRUM-124-NextFeature.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

Project Management 🗂️

• Task Tracking: We use Jira for all bug reports, feature requests, and overall project management.
• Communication: Join our Discord server for all project discussions, updates, and daily communication.
• Report: Contribute to our semester report on OneDrive, where we document our progress and findings.

Built With 🛠️

• Avalonia UI - A cross-platform XAML framework. Use Visual Studio Code with the Avalonia extension for the best development experience.

License 📝

This project is distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact 📧

For inquiries, please visit our GitHub page.