Intro

This issue aims to explore what it could look like if we integrated GitHub Sponsors into the extensions view. Currently, extensions are not tied to a single user, so we'd need for a way for an extension to tell us what users they'd like to be added to the "sponsors" list. One idea is having a new entry in the package.json with a list of GitHub usernames that we could link to.

Design

We could remove the redundant information on the installed extensions (ratings + downloads) and add a ❤️ icon that signals to users that an extension can be sponsored by them. When opening the extension, we could have a special GitHub Sponsor button that links to the users being sponsored. One thing we need to consider is having multiple sponsors, do we introduce a new tab that has the list of sponsors? What other information would users want to know about before sponsorin?