Almost 3 years of Drupal 7 development are behind us and we are finally about to release the beast. It is the first Drupal core release cycle that I actively participated in and I have to say that I learned a lot, from writing proper and core-worthy code, over phrasing usable user interface texts, to internals of almost all subsystems and modules in Drupal core.

Now that we're officially "closing" Drupal 7, it's time to slowly start to think about the future. Of course, while all Drupal core contributors have been busy with getting Drupal 7 out of the door in the past year, it's not like we wouldn't have identified countless of follow-up tasks and challenges for Drupal 8 already.

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