I opened a pull request for the RSS Provider. Renato, pointed out that it was broken, and there were no tests. After taking a look at it, I decided it needed a complete overhal. The previous functionality would launch a thread for rss feed and would not die/complete. The new version does not hog resources as previous version and includes tests. There is small change to the constructor that may break code for some people.
If you are interested in or use the RSS provider please comment on the pull request and the proposed changes. https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams/pull/95 -Ryan Ebanks
