LGTM

English Etymology Said to have originated within Google, early 2000s, originally to give positive feedback on other people's work in a code review. Pronunciation ĕl jē tē ĕm en /ɛl d͡ʒiː tiː ɛm/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-LGTM.wav Southern England en /el d͡ʒiː tiː em/ RP,AuE,NZE en /ɛl d͡ʒi ti ɛm/ GenAm,CanE,ScE en /ɛ(ː)l d͡ʒiː ʈiː ɛ(ː)m/ InE en General American en LGTM Phrase phren informal originally programming _ jargon en looks good to me en looks good to me. en Titus Winters; Tom Manshreck; Hyrum Wright Code Review Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time 2020 O'Reilly https://books.google.com/books?id=WXTTDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT424&dq=%22LGTM%22&hl=es&pg=PT175#v=onepage&q=%22LGTM%22&f=false 978-1-4920-8274-3 The primary end goal of a code review is to get another engineer to consent to the change, which we denote by tagging the change as “looks good to me” (LGTM). We use this LGTM as a necessary permissions “bit” (combined with the other bits noted below) to allow the change to be committed. Further reading