CCP are giving us half a million to millions of skillpoints in the coming week:
"Accelerated SP Week
Earn extra Skill Points during the week of January 22 to 29. During the week, you will receive 5 times the normal SP from War Points earned during a match. The weekly Skill Point cap will be boosted to 3 times the normal amount during the week as well."
This matches with the coming build with new suits/suit changes so people will want SP (respecs) but this event seems to be the alternative thus more reason not to expect a respec, I'm surprised no one noticed this in relation to 1.8 already.

The amount of SP you have banked is irrelevant when CCP changes the way skill trees are laid out or how certain dropsuits/weapons fundamentally work.

They will,respec dropsuit command for sure though.

Back in 1.3 or so, they respecced the light weapon reload skill.. And all they did was change the multiplier.

For dropsuits, the actual skill is being changed..,so they are most likely going to respec that

I don't really expect a weapon respec. Would be nice to get one but I don't see one. However, when it comes to dropsuit command and even dropsuit upgrades (particularly when CCP is going to completely alter pg/cpu base suit values, equipment slots, and module slots and maybe even modules themselves, that's a whole different story. What I put SP into was already established and that itself is being changed overall, from the mods maybe themselves to the skills themselves. When RR and CR were put in, it was an addition. Very little or nothing changed about current weapons and the skills related to them certainly didn't.