Added a section on open issues requiring help from volunteers / external contributors
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requests (even if you are not a committer), feature suggestions, reporting bugs, documentation and usability feedback
all matter immensely.
+The best way to get involved with the project and potentially to make the first step toward becoming a project committer
+is to look at the open issues in JIRA and help resolve them. Open issues labelled `volunteers-wanted` are especially
+unlikely to get resolved without help from volunteers / external contributors.
+
+Here is the list of [HttpComponents Issues](https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12350197) that HttpComponents
+project members require a helping hand with.
+
Testing
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