Gentoo CUPS-1.6 status

We've had CUPS 1.6 in the Gentoo portage tree for a while now already. It has even been keyworded by most of the arches (hooray!), and from the bug reports quite some people use it. Sometime in the intermediate future we'll stabilize it, however until then quite some bugs still have to be resolved.
CUPS 1.6 brings changes. The move to Apple has messed up the project priorities, and backward compatibility was kicked out of the window with a bang. As I've already detailed in a short previous blog post, per se, CUPS 1.6 does not "talk" the printer browsing protocol of previous versions anymore but solely relies on zeroconf (which is implemented in Gentoo by net-dns/avahi). Some other features were dropped as well...
Luckily, CUPS was and is open source, and that the people at Apple removed the code from the main CUPS distribution did not mean that it was actually gone. In the end, all these feature just made their way from the main CUPS package to a new package net-print/cups-filters maintained at The Linux Foundation. There, the code is evolving fast, bugs are fixed and features are introduced. Even network browsing with the CUPS-1.5 protocol has been restored by now; cups-filters includes a daemon called cups-browsed which can generate print queues on the fly and accepts configuration directives similar to CUPS-1.5. As far as we in Gentoo (and any other Linux distribution) are concerned, we can get along without zeroconf just fine.
The main thing that is hindering CUPS-1.6 stabilization a the moment is that the CUPS website is down, kind of. Their server had a hardware failure, and since nearly a month (!!!) only minimal, static pages are up. In particular, what's missing is the CUPS bugtracker (no I won't sign up for an Apple ID to submit CUPS bugs) and access to the Subversion repository of the source. (Remind me to git-svn clone the code history as soon as it's back and push it to gitorious.)
So... feel free to try out CUPS-1.6, testing and submitting bugs for sure helps. However, it may take some time to get these fixed...