[strategist] planning: CNCF adopter conversion strategy

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Planning Artifact

Adds docs/strategy/adopter-conversion-plan.md — a structured pipeline for converting GitHub forks, stars, and demo visitors into formal ADOPTERS.md entries.

Why this matters

The CNCF Incubation application cannot be filed until KubeStellar Console has ≥3 independent formal adopters. This is the sole remaining hard blocker (all other criteria are complete — see #4072). This document gives the maintainer team a concrete, staged approach to reach that bar by Q4 2026.

What this document contains

• Qualification criteria — What counts as an adopter (Evaluating / Development / Production tiers)
• 4-stage conversion pipeline — Aware → Interested → Evaluating → Committed
• Outreach tactics — Fork analysis, CNCF Slack posts, CTA on hosted demo, ADOPTERS.md PR template
• Tracking mechanism — GitHub Project board columns
• Success criteria — ≥3 entries, incubation application filed Q4 2026

What this document is NOT

This is a planning artifact for maintainer review — not a commitment to act on any specific org. All outreach decisions require human judgment.

Related: #16436, #4072

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Pull request overview

Adds a new strategy/planning document intended to help the maintainer team convert existing interest signals (forks, stars, demo traffic) into formal ADOPTERS.md entries needed to unblock the CNCF incubation application.

Changes:

• Introduces docs/strategy/adopter-conversion-plan.md describing adopter qualification tiers and a 4-stage conversion pipeline.
• Documents suggested outreach tactics (GitHub, CNCF Slack, community calls) plus a lightweight tracking approach (GitHub Project board).
• Defines success criteria targeting ≥3 independent adopters by Q4 2026.

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Requires Human Intervention

PR: #16451 — [strategist] planning: CNCF adopter conversion strategy
Stuck since: 2026-06-02T15:50:46Z (2+ days idle)
Current state: hold · not approved · no human review

Findings

• This PR has been open for 2 days with no activity after the initial bot comments.
• The hold label is present, indicating it requires human review before any action.
• No human has reviewed, commented, or approved this PR.
• The PR is a planning artifact (adds docs/strategy/adopter-conversion-plan.md) — not a code change — but it is still gated on human sign-off per the hold label.
• No status comment or escalation has been posted previously.

Recommended Next Steps

1. A human maintainer should review the adopter conversion strategy document.
2. If the plan is acceptable, remove the hold label and approve the PR.
3. If the plan needs changes, leave a review comment with specific feedback.
4. If the PR is no longer needed, close it with an explanation.

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Status Check (Follow-up)

This PR remains idle with no human review or action since the previous status check ~31 hours ago.

Current state: hold · not approved · no human review · no code changes since creation

Summary

This planning artifact (docs/strategy/adopter-conversion-plan.md) has been awaiting human sign-off for 4 days. The hold label gates all automation — only a human maintainer can unblock this.

Recommended Next Steps

1. Review the CNCF adopter conversion strategy document.
2. Approve and remove hold if the plan is acceptable, or close the PR with feedback if not.

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Status Check (Follow-up)

PR: #16451 — [strategist] planning: CNCF adopter conversion strategy
Stuck since: 2026-06-02 (4+ days with no human activity)
Current state: hold · approved by neither humans nor automated reviewers · no merge conflicts

Findings

• No human has reviewed or commented on this PR since creation.
• A prior escalation was posted 2026-06-04T20:24:57Z — still no action taken.
• The hold label is present, blocking any automated merge.
• This is a planning document (docs/strategy/adopter-conversion-plan.md) targeting the CNCF incubation blocker (≥3 formal adopters). No code changes involved.
• Related to [strategist] Structured adopter conversion pipeline — CNCF incubation hard blocker #16436 and 📋 CNCF Incubation Readiness Tracker #4072.

Recommended Next Steps

1. A human maintainer should read the adopter conversion strategy document and decide whether the plan is acceptable.
2. If acceptable: remove hold, add /approve.
3. If changes needed: leave a specific review comment.
4. If no longer relevant: close with explanation.

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Status Check (Follow-up — Day 4)

Item: PR #16451 — [strategist] planning: CNCF adopter conversion strategy
Stuck since: 2026-06-02 (4+ days with no human activity)
Current state: hold · awaiting human review · related to CNCF incubation blocker (#4072)

Findings

• A prior escalation was posted 2026-06-04T20:24:57Z — still no action taken.
• No human has reviewed, commented, or approved this PR since it was opened.
• This is a planning document (docs/strategy/adopter-conversion-plan.md) — no code changes, no rebase needed.
• The document describes a pipeline for reaching the ≥3 formal adopters required for CNCF incubation.

Recommended Next Steps

1. A human maintainer should review the adopter conversion strategy document.
2. If the plan is acceptable: remove hold and approve.
3. If the plan needs changes: leave review comments with specific feedback.
4. If no longer needed: close with an explanation.

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Status Check

This planning PR has been idle for 4+ days with no human review.

Current state:

• Labels: hold · ai-needs-human
• No blocking technical issues — this is a documentation/strategy artifact awaiting human sign-off.

Findings

• PR proposes a CNCF adopter conversion strategy document (docs/strategy/adopter-conversion-plan.md).
• A stuck-detection status comment was posted on 2026-06-04 — no action taken in the ~51 hours since.
• No human has reviewed, commented, or approved this PR since creation.

Recommended Next Steps

1. A human maintainer should review the adopter conversion strategy.
2. If acceptable, remove the hold label and approve/merge.
3. If changes are needed, leave specific review feedback.
4. If this PR is no longer needed, close it with an explanation.

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