Transports and Change Request

Hi Gurus-
Can some one tell me a simple scenario including following terms. I needed this as I am unable to picture everything together when I read documentation about these.
1. Transports
2. Change Request
3. Task
4. Package (Transportable)
5. Creating a Change Request (who will do this normally, as a developer how do I get this)
6. Releasing Change Request
7. Collecting Objects
Plese take a simple scenario like adding KF to a infoCube or changing a report.
Thanks in advace, points will be awarded.
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PUNZU

Please see my comments below.
1. Transports
Generally used to transport changes from development to QA to Production. Direct changes in Production is not advisable. Hence we make use of this tool.
2. Change Request
A change request/transport request stores all the objects you are changing and assigning them to this request. Any further changes to these objects will automatically be captured in this request.
3. Task
Generally, when a second user changes the same object which is captured in a request, a task is created under that request. However, when you release request, the final change gets transported. You need to release task before releasing a request.
4. Package (Transportable)
You define a group of objects as package just for identification purpose. For example, for workbench objects like cubes, I/O, ODS, you define workbench package. Whenever you are using transport connection from rsa1, and capture the objects in a request, you must assign each and every object to a particular package. There is no hard and fast rule of define packages. It is just for identification purpose.
5. Creating a Change Request (who will do this normally, as a developer how do I get this)
Generally, you as a developer should do this. Whenever you are making some change to an object and activating it, it will ask for a transport request. Otherwise, you can also drag and drop individual objects and select them and transport using transport connection tab in RSA1.
You can see the transport requests that you have created in transaction se09 or se10.
6. Releasing Change Request
Right click the request in se10 and click release.
7. Collecting Objects
You need to collect in target server. Generally, in most of the places, this process is automized with a workflow. you don't need to take care of this.
Hope this helps(something different from the things available in documentation).
Regards,
anup

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