You guys are confusing each other to bits. We don't have release candidates, we NEVER use m.n.v.rc1 versioning, and the thing that Sam produced is called a tarball. We call it that because we don't want people to believe it is a release until the PMC has voted to release it. That's all there is to it.
Sam, you just need to follow the same process as all of our other releases -- send a message to dev asking for votes on the tarball for declaring it the 0.2.0 alpha release. Give it three days and, at the end, if you have at least three +1s (including your own) and a majority of positive votes for release, then you can move it to the actual release dist and work on an announcement to go out 24hrs later. ....Roy