I was thinking more of a separate downloads page... if it's going to be announced on php.net (and it seems it is), it'd be good to keep RCs in a completely separate place at least. I know everyone's been using php.net/~ilia or php.net/~derick anyway, but would it be better to have a consistent link page _just_ for RC's, perhaps with a paragraph on it explaining exactly what a Release Candidate is?
You mean like http://qa.php.net/ ? ;-)
--- and link to it from the www.php.net announcement? Yep, that'd work :)
Ilia Alshanetsky