Has anyone checked out a copy of Drupal 7 yet? What do people think?
I'm pretty excited about the PDO and all of the designers I work with a very excited about the new admin interface/structure.
Do we have any Drupal core developers here on Stack Overflow?
It looks good, and the API is now frozen so module developers can get going before the final release.
A lot of the strength of Drupal comes from the modules and until they are on D7 it won't have a huge amount of benefit over D6.
The architectural changes are good and the api changes generally seem to be a step in the right direction. Personal favourite is RDF in core.
Eaton is still the top Drupal answerer on SO, and has done a lot of work on Drupal
Greggles has dabbled in SO and is part of the Drupal security team
I finally got around to signing up on SO, and I'm a core contributor. I'm obviously biased, but I think Drupal 7 is even more of an improvement over D6 than D6 was over D5. The easiest way to give it a spin is to sign up for a Drupal Gardens account. It'll take a little while to get an invite though.
I'm also a core contributor and maintainer of a couple core systems/modules. I'm fairly new but excited to see people asking questions about Drupal 7.