HELP-US: add a section for "smaller tasks"

The point of this section is to meet the CII Best Practices gold level
critera:

 "The project MUST clearly identify small tasks that can be performed by
  new or casual contributors"

Closes #5560
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@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ found yourself or perhaps got annoyed at in the past. It can be a spelling
error in an error text or a weirdly phrased section in a man page. Hunt it
down and report the bug. Or make your first pull request with a fix for that.
## Smaller tasks
Some projects mark small issues as "beginner friendly", "bite-sized" or
similar. We don't do that in curl since such issues never linger around long
enough. Simple issues get handled very fast.
If you're looking for a smaller or simpler task in the project to help out
with as an entry-point into the project, perhaps because you are a newcomer or
even maybe not a terribly experienced developer, here's our advice:
- Read through this document to get a grasp on a general approach to use
- Consider adding a test case for something not currentled tested (correctly)
- Consider updating or adding documentation
- One way to get your feet wet gently in the project, is to participate in an
existing issue/PR and help out by reproducing the issue, review the code in
the PR etc.
## Help wanted
In the issue tracker we occasionally mark bugs with [help