id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 18261 "Clarify the term ""project root directory""" schnippi Susan Tan "The documentation at {{{ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/translation/#message-files }}} states that {{{ django-admin.py makemessages }}} should be run from ""the root directory of your Django project"" or ""the root directory of your Django app"". As the Django 1.4 directory structure creates mysite/ and mysite/mysite/, it is unclear, what the project's root directory is. Running django-admin makemessages/compilemessages within mysite/ makes the the Django translation system ignore my translation file. Running the commands in mysite/mysite/ instead does work as expected. It should be explicitly stated in the tutorial, that mysite/mysite/ is the project's root directory. " Cleanup/optimization closed Documentation 1.4 Normal fixed project root, root directory, translation, makemessages, compilemessages Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0