Well now, that's what I call a good question!

There is probably more than one dev busy now and more people seem to be engaged. But it is unclear who the devs are.

My guess is they skip the (faulty) previously released 1.2.x releases and that they are busy right now integrating the new Bitcoin (headers) 0.10 core with the eMark wallet. That would be a enormous step forward. It is good to remember all digital currencies are in their infancies and therefore experimental. A certain amount of trouble is to be expected. In my opinion the eMark devs are showing their best effort and in the meanwhile the eMark is holding extremely well on Cryptsy. If the eMark was available on another exchange, that exchange would experience similar problems as Cryptsy is having right now.

In general: if you want more certainty, maybe another market is better suited for you. No one - and certainly not the eMark team - is waiting for an outage like this.