First of all congratulations for a great new site!
I'm thinking... Would it be a good idea to create a separate section in this forum for the new release candidate(s)? Things might easily get mixed-up because of the substantial differences between stable and rc.
Also I posted a question some time about creating tickets for every little issue and I got the impression that minor ones should maybe be posted in the forums first? Still not sure about this, so maybe you could set me straight here?