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How to tell that a proposal is ready for launch?

Previously in the old system, we asked around of how many that were willing to participate, posted scope proposals and declared interested with comments or voting.

Now:
- The "Descriptions" tab/category doesn't seem to invite any discussion. There's just a question and not really clear who should be editing it. Is it to be regarded as community wiki? Should anyone edit it after consensus in the various discussions below the meta tab?

  We can reply with comments but not answers, so it would seem that it invites to some limited discussion still. Which probably belongs under the various meta posts instead...?

- The Q&A under Incubator Q&A tab/category is supposedly featuring typical examples of on-topic questions. Are we to answer these as we would answer any question on the launched sites? 

  If not then how do we tell if a proposal is popular/active/mature enough to get launched? We could perhaps use Q&A activity as an indicator of this, but do the users understand that if they want a certain proposal launched, the only way of doing so now is to be active under Q&A?

- If we are using Incubator Q&A "as if on the real site", then we have the problem with scope not yet fully fleshed out and such questions might become borderline on-topic. Essentially each question might need its own meta discussion. And if users start to ask "real" questions rather than "canonical examples", then the question quality isn't likely going to be as good or representative.

I realize that some "hard metric" like a certain number of votes, a certain number of users declaring interest isn't necessarily helpful since these "age" over time. But interested users do at least need to know what they are supposed to be doing in case they are interested in having a certain proposal launched.