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