I might find enough spare cycles to do it myself.

Hi Peter, what's the current status of this? Thanks :)

So I am currently blocked on:
- Bernhard's CL to allow multi-section support on the UI (https://codereview.chromium.org/2196273002/)
- Philipp's CL to add CategoryInfo meta data to categories (https://codereview.chromium.org/2207493002/)

However, these both look they should be done soon and once they are done this change should be fairly simple (in fact Philipp is doing some of the work I had planned on doing).

(I didn't add the bugs for those CLs as blocking since the CLs are just small parts of the overall bugs)

Ok, thanks for the update!

just FYI - the CLs you mentioned in comment #8 have all landed.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db

commit 9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db
Author: peconn <peconn@chromium.org>
Date: Fri Aug 12 16:29:32 2016

Change Snippet layout based on Category.

BUG=634275,  631479 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2235463002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#411671}

[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/android/java/res/layout/new_tab_page_snippets_card.xml
[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/android/java/res/values/dimens.xml
[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/ntp/UiConfig.java
[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/ntp/cards/SuggestionsSection.java
[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/ntp/snippets/SnippetArticleListItem.java
[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/ntp/snippets/SnippetArticleViewHolder.java
[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/ntp/snippets/SnippetsBridge.java
[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/android/junit/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/ntp/cards/NewTabPageAdapterTest.java
[modify] https://crrev.com/9ada493805a5a7abc38a38a706ba5db7f627c4db/chrome/browser/android/ntp/ntp_snippets_bridge.cc