It is maintained. epoll support is coming to the linuxulator in FreeBSD 11.

But you don't need it really. All the usual desktop software is available natively. Firefox, Thunderbird, Chromium, LibreOffice, Transmission, VLC, GIMP, darktable, ioquake3 :-)

You don't need to compile anything (if you don't want to, say, use LibreSSL everywhere), pkgng is excellent.