The ability to request repair and request meld is one of the things I was very disappointed to see didn't make the transfer when I came back to the game from 1.0. Although I see someone quoted that the devs have stated it isn't high on the list, I do hope that now that they have made changes to player repairs in general it is a sign that they may move it up the list some. Perhaps they will look at this change to see how many people start looking toward repairing their own gear and use that as a basis for whether they should look into the ability to repair others' gear more closely?