It works good (in the meantime, since I figured out the Dos and Don'ts) for simple scenes. But I got the impression, that blender became too verbose with the current cvs, so that the broker doesn't understand the renderd/blender's feedback any more. See the screenshot and notice the messages "ERROR unknown response from renderd":

Is there anybody who maintains this piece of code at the moment?
I once again request to re-open the issue of distributed rendering of animations... I somehow feel like I've sculpted a graceful statue (with all the new modelling features) but I can't get it out of my studio to the showroom because the door is too small (the power of one CPU is by far too little)!!!