Rui CarmoRicardo M. Reyes has created a Sourceforge project for newspipe, making it accessible via CVS - which is always a good thing, provided your corporate firewall lets CVS through (mine doesn't, which is wierd in a company with in-house development - ah well).
Now that I'm home for the weekend, I'll be checking out the latest sources and merging Davi's fixes as soon as I can find them again (I seem to have lost the link to his package).
Update: Despite the 37C heat and the amount of stuff I still have to read through, I set up a new newspipe install, and it's humming along so nicely (it even has colored diffs for updated posts) that I started giving Ricardo a hand with the docs.