2010/10/30 David <dgboles@gmail.com>
Has the development system been established yet? Is there an installable
Mageia available?

Hello David, 
You could follow any informations through this ML, and with Mageia blog :  http://blog.mageia.org (relay on social networks)
The Mageia Team works actually on Building System and severals services on servers.
Mageia roadmap mention an iso for december (alpha version)