Simon had a quick look. Part of the problem is that I haven't worked on news-aggregator + feed-parser for 6 months. (news-aggregator is the UI, feed-parser is the RSS parser that returns a Tcl array data structure from RSS.)
The very newest code for news-aggregator is in HEAD. There's a tag, news-aggregator-0-9d, and a handful of fixes after -0-9d. However, this version was never mergerd to oacs-5-1; I think version 0.4d is in oacs-5-1, which is most likely broken.
If anyone is interested in working on this code, feel free to contact me (here, email, irc, aim or Skype) and I can explain the intricacies and what's broken most.
