Hi Walter,

There seems to be some confusion here, so thank you for raising and
offering me an opportunity to clarify. We lost Ubiquity testing in a
datacentre move and bringing it back up exactly as constructed was
untenable. We reached out to the Ubuntu Foundations team for criteria
of a new Ubiquity testing service, and they asked that we first focus
on testing against the main Ubuntu distribution.

With that implemented¹, we let the Community team know that they could
make a case to the other engineering teams for CI time on
infrastructure to test derived distributions. They did this, but we
were and continue to be completely swamped with other mission critical
work. This is unlikely to change soon.

The tests themselves are open source and could be run out of cron
without further dependency² (it uses a local kvm instead of depending
on the cloud). So if you can find hosting, you should have everything
they need to run them.

Cheers,
Evan Dandrea (CI team and former Ubiquity co-author)

1:https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Ubiquity/view/Ubuntu/
2:http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk/view/head:/autopilot/README.md