Are there any purposes for the management folder in Django other than commands?

Question

Why are management commands not in their own app-level folder? Are there other items which can be added to the management directory or is this structure purely vestigial?

Answer 1

I don't know the history, but it seems semi-vestigial to me. As for other stuff that can be put in the management dir, the comment about signals above hints at one answer.

One thing I do when trying to answer such questions is to look at the contrib apps to see what they do. Some interesting bits to be found:

• auth/management/__init__.py
• sites/management.py

Note that in the second one, the management module is a .py file rather than a directory.

Answer 2

Another thing that needs to be placed in the management module (either in management/__init__.py or management.py) is any listeners to the django.db.models.signals.post_sync signal.