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 23584,makemessages only looks in the current folder,Eduard Luca,nobody,"When running `django-admin.py makemessages` (with the appropriate arguments), it doesn't generate po files for Javascript files which use `gettext`. As far as I can tell, it's because in `core/management/commands/makemessages.py` at line 304, there's `file_list = self.find_files(""."")`, which means it only looks in the current directory (and subdirs), meaning it won't ever look in either `STATIC_ROOT` or `STATICFILES_DIRS` (still a bit fuzzy which one is which). Unless there's an obvious thing I'm missing here, I'd treat this as either one of the following: - a bug, because it should look in JS files too - a feature request to add a --lookup_path argument The current workaround is to run manage.py from whatever folder you want it to look in.",Bug,closed,Translations,1.7,Normal,needsinfo,localization,,Unreviewed,0,0,0,0,0,0