Nothing new here. Antirez for once has taken a similar stance on his YouTube video channel which has material on the topic. But it's worthwhile having a document like this publicly available by a company that the tech crowd seems to respect.

<offtopic> The "RFD" here stands for "Reason/Request for Decision" or something else? (Request for Decision doesn't have a nice _ring_ on it tbh). I'm aware of RFCs ofc and the respective status changes (draft, review, accepted, rejected) or ADR (Architectural Decision Record) but have not come across the RFD acronym. Google gave several different answers. </offtopic> </offtopic>