[klenwell]

The other way I've heard this expressed:

The opposite of bureaucracy isn't efficiency. It's corruption.

[chrisseaton]

Ruby has absolutely no process - not even an equivalent of PEPs. What corruption do you think there is there?

[detaro]

Not no process, since Matz is effectively BDFL, isn't he?

[chrisseaton]

That’s the abscence of process. No votes, no committees, no grown people pretending they’re a court of appeal.

[dragonwriter]

Community proposes, Matz disposes is a process, if a dirt simple, low-ceremony one.

[wnissen]

The process is simple, but not absent.

[detaro]

I guess it points to a difference between klennwell's and jetrink's comments above: "The BDFL has the final say" is process in the sense of jetrink's comment (it's an explicit power structure that can avoid some of the worst of the unorganized alternatives, with IMHO unique acceptance), but it's not bureaucracy as in klennwells. I had mentally nested your comment wrong.

[contravariant]

That seems optimistic. Especially since bureaucracy and corruption have coexisted in various scenarios.