In addition to our main projects, the MVX team also focuses on creating tools and frameworks to help streamline our development workflow. The latest one in our repertoire is the MVX Build Manager.
Our previous workflow consisted of TortoiseSVN to manage versioning, and external documents to keep track of release notes. We developed the MVX Build Manager which is integrated directly into the Unity IDE, allowing us to do the versioning and release notes all in one place.
Within the Build Manager, our developers can specify build profiles so we can create builds with different settings to different platforms simultaneously.
The release notes are automatically created based off categorised commit notes, and can include internal comments only for the development team.
Committing and updating from our SVN trunk is all done through the Build Manager so we never have to leave Unity.
The tool automatically exports release notes as a text file along with each build, so that Project Managers and clients can easily see what has changed since the last version.
