With some delay due the heavy workload at Mandriva offices, i manage to provide some experimental packages for Mandriva 2008 Spring.
A standard urpmi repository is available.
Please refer to README for detailed information.

And of course:

Well, was a huge journey for usr this time. 2008.1 was not only an updated 2008.0, but since early design, was clearly that we would try do a big step on our development. Just to mention what arrived since 2008.0, we're integrated Manbo labs work, which means now we're have a real common core system between us and Turbo Linux, we're integrated PulseAudio on whole distro, which was a bold move and even not been so perfect yet, for me proves at all that was the right decision, and of course, we did most of possible fixes and insanities on KDE 3 !!
I can tell, we sacrificed polish a kde 4 environment, today in contrib, due our heavy tasks to make KDE 3 as best as possible. I can't measure the stress of hunt and do changes like we want, and some couldn't be solved to last moments, but i can say was one of the best KDE deployments the Mandriva KDE team did ever. From the screensaver to the kicker changes to menu changes, all small patches and fixes almost impossible to be noted, but which took hours from us to find, or even touch in monster codes like kicker one, and integrate new features.
As i promised myself, the day we gone gold, would be last day i would see KDE 3 in my personal work machine, so now i'm using in production KDE 4.0.68 over 2008.1 base and i guess you know why ...
So congrats to everyone that did a wonderful job on Mandriva Spring and we finally break the curse

First of all, on behalf of all Mandriva KDE team ( me, Gustavo Boiko, Danilo César and our main contributor Nicolas Lecureuil ), we want to to say a big thanks for the enourmous efforts and the present result named KDE 4.0.0 !
Been for some time in the last years actively involved in KDE development in many ways considering distributions and even the amount of rants and talks on conferences, i'm proud to be the small part of this huge project that prove in many ways that we can deploy desktop on opensource with quality.
If users are looking for Mandriva packages, we have it at http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/4.0.0/Mandriva/

Now, on behalf of Brazilian KDE team, i can say we did it !! Let's get out tonight and celebrate because is all deserved, mainly the translation team who did a fantastic last hour work !
Thanks to Nuno Pinheiro from Oxygen that provided the nice portuguese image.

So happy KDE 4.0.0 day for everyone !!

Troy was a little too much polite for me. Really.
Is easy to understand when we saw critics. Most easy when are from the people that can't or couldn't help the subject but want express their own feeling about this.
But NOT when came from the people that CAN HELP and MAKE PART OF THE SUBJECT.

I have little or almost no time last 6 months to help KDE 4 in many ways. Why ? because in a matter of keep things working, we're dealing with several projects on KDE 3 for company, and now are doing a triage of Mandriva KDE 3 bugs for next release at SAME TIME trying to make KDE 4 desktop been best on our side. As OpenSuse guys. And as many other people that is making KDE a living organism that works for more than 10 years. At distros we're keeping the heartbeat of our beloved KDE 3 until the new breed arrives.

We're not working on KDE 3 because KDE 4 sucks, as Ruurd implies. We're working on KDE 3 because someone need to do the dirt work to allow people create our future, which IS KDE 4.

Ruurd and others complainers probably not lived the sensation of changing from KDE 1.x to KDE 2 and how huge, and painfull, and difficult, and sometimes amazing chnage was ! ( someone remember some guy that sent patches for KDE 1 which was rejected and then started some other desktop ? )

If KDE 4 is crap now, first release of KDE 2 is the big trashcan ever developed, based on this stupid concepts. So anyone can say to me what KDE 2 became ? I can, because is that thing that make my work today, and i love it.

More, people are doing a grat job, hugely, massive great job. It's not perfect yet ? I don't care. Is expected, we're just a bunch of great programmers doing more than a billionaire company with thousands and thousands of programmers are doing.

So if you think you can do BETTER, DO IT. If you think is CRAP, give reason and show your wonderfull world to help us, otherwise your complains will hurt not only us, but evryone that is reading and probably this wil hit you after.

So Ruurd, i think this image speaks for me and for others that are busting their asses for make it happens, and sorry again, but people need deserve the respect to talk cheap !

First of all, i'm working in a Linux company, i use Linux for almost everything in my life except gaming.
Second, my company sold like hundred thousand of linux machines all over the world.
Third, it's obvious for any smart person that actually read regular information about computer world see that linux is growing A LOT.
Then, suddenly, the bank that i use ( and many of my fellows co-workers ) decide the very smart move to include an security applet that simply makes mandatory the use of Microsoft Windows. And they tell this explicitely.
They provide a telephone to users of "other operational systems" to inform then that they're not using MS ( maybe to tell then to use telephone operations ). Ok, would be barely ok if..
..i'm outside my country. The only way i have to pay my accounts is by internet banking, as my family lives away from my city. And will not back until the terminal date od back change, 19 October. So, if some issue happens during my stay out my home, like pay the credit card debts, that i'm using here, to avoid lock, i'll be helpless, or use some non-personal computer with Microsoft Windows to deal with my money.
Nice, huh ? To have security, i just need abandon my current security in favor of a use unsecure computer that i can't assure if is reliable.
Maybe can i ask ABN to give me R$ 500,00 in my account to buy a copy of some non portuguese Microsoft Windows here to solve my issue

Of course, who cares about Linux users ? Not ABN Amro. Should we include Santander in this too ?

I started Jambi package to Mandriva at Akademy this year, but process was complex since we're dealing with buildsystem changes, Java new packages, Qt4 layout changing, so lots of barriers to get the task done.
My personal effort on this is have next Mandriva releases be ready for developers in all cases, to use best available Qt and KDE technologies as possible, improving our situation from the past.
Then, yesterday i had all things in really good shape, and finally a good initial package could be produced.
I tested many environments. gcj/ecj was having some compile issues, but java 1.6 sun and the best, java 1.7 icedtea worked as a breeze.
Linking against system Qt 4.3.1 was not a problem at all. Great that both i586 and x86_64 arches are compiled fine as well ( thanks for David Walluck tips ).
So the major trouble in my special case is the install process, as Jambi not provide a proper install script, and even a proper layout to install.
I decided make launcher and designer-jambi scripts to lauch on doc and devel package respectively, and separate Jambi jar and libraries in different packages, and most of files fall down on same qt4 dir on Mandriva.
We fall down with this result:

Ok, 22 days after, the bag is back !
All stuff inside, no damage at all, just the bag itself with some scratches.
Interesting thing in that clearly luggage was open and all things changed position, even things that was inside a necessaire, like a deodorant, was drop on bag, and necessaire was still closed
I will not complain about the scratches on the bag, i had enough stress about whole thing last weeks, i'm happy enough to have all things back with me.
Case closed !!

BIG RANT MODE
Seens like air companies are really lost on this days.
My luggage still not arrived, and neither companies, TAM and British Airways seens able to find what's happened.

Would not be so important if you consider that is just money, and i am back to home already safe, but inside the bag was the wonderfull computers shown in Akademy for everyone, like the Classmate, and mainly the MID with all Mandriva work and KDE 4 work. This work is unvaluable, can't put a price on the efforts of some guys

As TAM company said, seens like British Airways decide for some reason tag the luggage to Paris, instead of final destination. Of course this after i asked three or four times on the checkin that my luggage WILL arrive at Brazil directly.
Then of course, after filling all documents as usual, i'm still waiting three days for the luggage and all that both companies can tell me is that my luggage was dispatched in a flight to CDG to Rio de Janeiro, but nobody can know where it is.

I was silly in trust put this mini computers inside, but the crazy moment on checkin in Glasgow, and been my backpack heavy to bring inside the plane made me opt to bring my notebook on backpack, instead of other devices.
And i even bought a new suitcase, to make easy have one only bag to bring to airport. Sigh!!

Now what i can do is just wait from both TAM and British Airways airlines find some solution, because probably the meeting to show MID with Mandriva and KDE work are pratically ruined. And i'm feeling personally responsible for that...
/BIG RANT MODE

( For english speakers, translation will follow soon portuguese entry )

Bom, acredito que a maioria dos interessados nessa arena de programação do FISL devem já ter recebido o recente comunicado sobre premiações e desafios que pretendem colocar.

Nada como um "desafio" de uma arena de programação. Esconderam um código na página e com dicas do futuro lá também

O "código" escondido é um pequeno javascript do infame Rot13 "criptografado" em Rot13.