I posted this question in reply to an upgrade question that was answered. Then I realized that this evolved into a theme design help question after posting so I am reposting my question here. Hope this does not offend anybody.
I have just finished porting my CSSimple theme to drupal 4.7.x. It is available from my site here.
CSSimple is a PHPTemplate based theme for drupal 4.7.x. It uses pure CSS for layout and handles both three-column and two-column layouts. I jiggered it to make it easy to port themes from wordpress, and have ported around 20 themes from a wordpress theme competition.
I just started messing with 4.7 on a dev site to see what it would take to convert my current site from 4.6 and ran into a couple of minor issues.
1: the friendsElectric (This includes my own modified version and the stock one) Theme has a couple of compatibility issues that I was able to hack around. once I took a peek under the hood. This little adventure convinced me to take a stab at doing my own theme. I just have to say that the php theme engine is amazingly simple to use. Great JOB!
How do I go about submitting a theme. I've been working on one for a few months now and I'm almost finished. I'd like to have this one posted for the 4.7 release. I still have to write the JS for the cookie user-specified theme settings and finishing testing with 4.7 and adding a few extra styles. I've been working with Drupal for about a year now and I would really appreciate some help in how to go about a formal theme submission.